Been thinking… shouldn’t it be possible to represent most of the settings in the “Diffuse and sub-surface scattering layers” rollout with something very similar to a gradient ramp?

What would this gradient do? Best regards, Vlado

I’m just having a super difficult time trying to figure out how to get a predictable result while I’m tweaking things, and was thinking it could be a better way of visualizing what the material is doing with light at different depths from the surface. But I guess this would make a little more sense…

Well if you only want it for visualization purposes, then it can be done - in fact, I already coded something similar to tell me what’s going on inside the material for other purposes. It needs to be made more user-friendly though. Best regards, Vlado

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Dave_Wortley July 23, 2012, 2:13pm 5

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