It would be better to use the blue map to drive changes in the Subsurface. 

Personally I don't find it that hard to learn what the nodes do. The hard part is converting what you want to achieve into a node structure that does what you were thinking about in the first place. You sort of have to understand the nodes, what they actually do, what you are trying to do (how light actually works, SSS, etc). 

If any of you don't want the technical discussions on how the nodes work, how light works, so you can get it to work. Just do the vascularity in post work and be done with it.

That way you don't have to worry about the nodes, how to use them, learning, etc.  Then people can go to the appropriate post work forum to discuss it there.

As is stands now, this is a Poser forum discussing how to do vascularity, in Poser, and winging it to get close enough was probably not the OP's intention.....

If you want it to look right, you have to understand it.... The render engine does exactly what you tell it to do, nothing more, nothing less......

But we were told not to explain these things by a Mod, so I will leave it at that....... But by all means, wing it and tell yourself it looks right......

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