Thanks bagginsbill - and for your excellent skin/surface tutorials over the years. Yeah I guess 'scale' makes programming sense but there could be a bit of a job done inside Poser in terms of user ergonomics / plain english. That said, I do find the UI about as ergonomic as it could be - one of the things that first attracted me to Poser was its simple/quick camera and animation controls :)

Thanks Caisson :)

caisson posted at 3:08AM Sat, 06 June 2020 - #4390908

I think the parameter to experiment with in the scatter node is the Scale. IIRC it relates to the size of the object where lower values result in more scattering - I used to set something around 1.5 to 1.8 for a human figure, though it has been quite a few years since I've used it ;)

Thanks - yeah I was avoiding the physical node because I've gone to the effort of building the skin using the Poser node and it's just this alteration I need. I saw that excellent tutorial by Baginsbill though so I'll follow that if I make the jump to physical root :)

OK I haven't tried this with faces yet, but the problem may be solved - I just tested Chicken2, and it looks like they turned down scatter on that - which is just what I wanted!

Here's the test:

Looks like Skin2 turns down scatter on Skin1 as well, so Skin2 is barely any scatter at all.

Chicken - too much scatter:

Skin1 - almost no scatter: