Quote - A little amusement I just threw together.

A GC M4 kicks a non-GC M4 in the head. Poetic.

Notice how you'd never use this light setup, because the non-GC looks absolutely terrible.

Similarly, if you used a better (brighter and more) light setup for non-GC M4 here, then GC M4 would look terrible.

The difference is, one of these can look real, the other can never look real no matter the lights you use.

Using an IBL with a Fractal_Sum on it at 25%. Slight tweaks to the FS node. Two white spotlights at 35% each, slightly spaced apart, with ray-traced shadows, blur=20.

this is for the gallery. i am serious. the title should be ''GC or not GC''.  it would viausl show hat happen to the renders that are not GC. a kick in the face. 

p.s. i noticed that the M4 skin texture works very good with the VSS shader. colors look good and specular looks good.