Looking for tutorials and / or sample-scenes for subsurface scattering

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Hi everyone.

I´m trying to get in the subsurface scattering with VRay, but I´m not very successful. I tried the VRayMtl and the VRayFastSSS, but I do not get nice results.

I also did Search > subsurface, but I didn´t get results explaining SSS in depth or providing good examples.

So maybe it´s possible to provide some tutorials or links to tutorials.

It would also be great if some good examples could be provided showing up material- and render-settings for SSS.

Vlado, I think you may have some nice examples? I found your dragon-example, maybe this scene or scenes kind of this could be shared?

Thank you.

Sascha

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Hello, youcan get nice samples on this page if you don’t already know it: http://www.vray-materials.de/all\_materials.php?category=SSS%20Special

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Yes, thank you. I appreciate this. I´ll examin these materials.

But I´m also looking for some “real-life”-examples, not only this material-sample-scenes.

Any ideas?

Sascha

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There are a number of ways to get light scattering inside objects with V-Ray:

(*) VRayMtl with translucency (good for candles, porcelain, marble etc);
(*) VRay2SidedMtl material (good for cloth, paper, grapes etc);
(*) VRayFastSSS material (could be useful for skin);

For example, the following scene uses VRayMtl for the candle and the fruit cup, and VRay2SidedMtl material for the grapes and the leaves:

Best regards,
Vlado

Best regards,
Vlado

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Thanks you for answering, Vlado. I´m hunting for the settings of the pro´s. :wink:

Any chance to get this max-file for examination?

Best regards.
Sascha

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I will have to ask (the scene was not made by me).

Best regards,
Vlado

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I second that request!! The file would be very useful.

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From Richard Rosenman, quite usefull link

http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=85

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Bloody hell that’s nice!

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Animation - WOW!

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wow the grapes are amazing!
who did it?

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So I got permission to post the scene; need to clean it up a bit and will put the link here.

Best regards,
Vlado

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Yeah!

Thaaankyouumaaan… :wink:

Sascha

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2Sided to do *those* grapes? Wow… unbelievable O_O. Really, I would have never tried to use 2Sided for anything thick. Cool scene. :slight_smile:

Best regards,
A.

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Animaton

Wow, that’s incredible! :shock: And the candle???

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Thats great…what a great reference file…thanks for posting it :slight_smile:

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Any word on the file being posted?

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Here is the scene, created by Ivelin Yordanov, file is for 3ds Max 2009.

Best regards,
Vlado

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Thanks so much Vlado. Great learning tool!

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That’s very nice ! It is also a good way to learn by analyzing ready-made scenes.

Wouldn’t it be a good thing to have a bunch of examples scenes bundled with vray in the future ? These could be simpler than this one, and focusing on specific aspects and would gratly compliment the excellent online manual.