Attached Link: http://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/free-stuff/random-shaders

Here - go to the linked page. This is not the VSS home page. It is a page in my new site, where I stick random shaders. From there, download the VSS_Template_Skin_PR3_WIP.mt5 file.

Anybody reading this way in the future, you should know I'm only putting this up temporarily. When the finished version is available, it will move to its rightful home.

The shader is one incarnation of my new "stacked layers shader" architecture. An SLS is built from individual shading layers that I can mix and match. I have assembled a basic set of layers here for you to play with.

Unlike the PR2 shader, which was built by hand, this one is from a matmatic script. So the nodes are all laid automatically. I wouldn't bother trying to understand them.

All the interesting "configuration" nodes are on the left side of the shader. I'll leave it to you as a fun experiment to figure out what they do.

Load your PR2 control prop, then load this material into the Template Skin of the control prop. Then you can adjust the parameters, and synchronize.

This WIP does not have the displacement layer in it, so just be aware of that. It should make all the "bloat" problems go away because I'm not even trying to do the displacement.

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