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Material requires P9/PP2012 - don't bother downloading if you don't have that. It uses scatter.

Gawd, that does look like skin...lol. Well, sorta nasty skin ;).

Thanks.

Laurie

it looks a little phallic to me,  but i haven't gone out much lately 

Kinda looks like someone hit it with a "wood" lathe too.

it's that dash at the tip of the sphere --

i can't imagine how to map a sphere or easter egg, without seams resulting with tiling jpgs;
or geosphere without a 'horizon' line.

Quote - it looks a little phallic to me,  but i haven't gone out much lately

Obviously not. LOL! :lol:

If my phallus grew hairs, I'd be off to see the doctor! The palms of my hands? Now that's a diffrent story.

that is creepy... i had a link to saggy balls i had meant to check out but lost the link somehow...BB does some amazing things with his shaders...

Now I'm freaked out!

i had to make a special trip to the vending machine to sublimate creeps with a Twix bar.

Harry Phallus? I thought that guy was still locked up.

LMAO @misty  Thanks for this. I wanted to experiment with peach fuzz on a hi res portrait.

A door knob after a testosterone injection?

I didn't know how creepy until I went to the full size picture. yiiiikes. Downloading.

Quote - Here's the shader. Add the hair yourself.

Material requires P9/PP2012 - don't bother downloading if you don't have that. It uses scatter.

Bagginsbills nodes-orgy.

Rendertime on a high-end-pc 2h17.

My PC is not high-end and my render was a few minutes. I have an Intel I7-860.

Cool creepy skin ;-) This took about 10 mins to render on my fairly old mac...

Its in a white-grey envsphere with 3 IBLs a spot and a point light... indirect light quality set to 9.

multiple IBL lights?

3 IBL is really overkill.  It's just an ambient light.

Its a just freebie light set I've downloaded at some point that I used there... I'd have to check the source. So not sure why 3 IBLs are used... or checked if all 3 do actually benefit the result in some way.

I only noted there were 3 IBLs when I was posting that in fact...

I will experiment some more there... ;-)

Would a single IBL usually be enough?

If you're using my EnvSphere and IDL is enabled, IBL does nothing at all. When IDL is enabled, IBL is like an infinite size EnvSphere. Since the actual EnvSphere you're using is not infinite, it is closer than the virtual one associated with IBL.

If you disable IDL, then IBL will change modes and illuminate everything, even things inside a box or sphere.

i've always thought of IBL light as a universal light and aiming it tells firefly where to gather the ambient shadows.

...what's creepy? is missing something here....

Quote - If you're using my EnvSphere and IDL is enabled, IBL does nothing at all. When IDL is enabled, IBL is like an infinite size EnvSphere. Since the actual EnvSphere you're using is not infinite, it is closer than the virtual one associated with IBL.

If you disable IDL, then IBL will change modes and illuminate everything, even things inside a box or sphere.

Ah, cool - I see now. I wondered about that... thanks for illuminating me :-)

So using that IDL setting with your BB envsphere, should I therefore get the same result with just having the spot and the point light in that scene... without those IBLs being added at all?

Am I understanding that much correctly?

Thanks... rendered again. Much quicker to render this time I think... and it is indeed entirely identical without any of those 3(!) IBL lights.

;-)