I don't know if the velvet node is bad or not. Like so many other nodes, I cannot find the formula - what it actually is doing. Since I know what I want to do, but I don't know what it is doing, I don't use it. Given the choice, I do what I want mathematically, not guessing. I have done much experimenting with nodes, but any that are specialized with no explanation are essentially useless to me. I'm not going to work out the millions of parameter values and how they influence each other if I can build what I want in 20 minutes from math nodes.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)