Trollzinho opened this issue on Jun 27, 2009 · 62 posts
bagginsbill posted Sun, 28 June 2009 at 10:05 AM
Don't be insulted - I don't have time to write a lot so each statement will sound really harsh and abrupt.
You have nodes connected to nothing, so they do nothing - delete them. These are Glossy and the Color_Math.
FastScatter is a node that only fires when there is a light behind your figure. You must have tested with such a light. Try only a front light and you will see you have zero specular effect anymore, even though that is when you're supposed ot have it.
It turns out that FastScatter is pretty much an ambient that turns on when a light is behind. So it has no place in this shader.
Removeing the FS leaves you with Edge_Blend plugged straight into Alternate_Specular. In English, here is what you wrote:
When there is a light behind the figure, make the lips shine on any part that is pointing roughly at the camera.
This is not a good set of instructions UNLESS, there is a light behind, and the figure is pointing directly at the camera. In any other situation, this will produce nonsense.
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