Snarlygribbly - well, I largely operate using the core work done by others, (bb's advancements in Poser shaders & lighting in this arena). I'm about as far from scientific in my approach as you can get, relying on the 'eyeball' technique. As those optical illusions illustrate, this doesn't always hack it, so I try for at least a half-way house of trying to understand the theory pared with comparison to photographic references. Still leaves a lot of room for error.

Incidentally, I noticed you credited me in your EZSkin documentation. While it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling I should point out that everything I've done with PP2012SSS is based almost entirely on shaders created by bb with only minor tweaks by myself. Just putting that out there. It's a very nice script btw.

Yes though, I want to do a lot more experimentation regarding diffuse and control maps. Time is always my greatest enemy though.

 

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