I see the pictures, too.

Whichway, excellent thread archeaology there, my friend. You found it fast.

That thread is one of the most sophisticated "scientific" experiments I've done with Poser.

There are certain individuals who, ahem, have argued that she understand what this channel does.  But if you really read all that I posted there, you'll come to see that unless you are really really thorough in testing all sorts of combinations, you will come to wrong conclusions about what that channel does.

Even I, now 2 years later, have trouble following my demonstration in that thread. You cannot just skim over it. You have to read every line I wrote, and study every object in the picture, and wrap your head around what you should be seeing, versus what you do see.

If that's too much effort (and I gotta say, I can't blame anybody for going, huuuhhh???) I'd just follow the wrap up I gave which was this:

Conclusion - the translucence either acts ordinary or does something that isn't very useful. In addition, there are situations where it doesn't even do its intended behavior for a completely meaningless reason. There should be no distinction between using two identical but separate Diffuse nodes versus using the same node for two channels.

I say stay away from it.

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