With ProRender you can render 3D scenes using the power of the GPU, and Release 20 adds some key new features to ProRender, including subsurface scattering, multi-pass, motion blur and more. You'll need subsurface scattering for accurate renders of skin, wax and many fluids - basically anything that transmits light internally. Nov 04, 2019 Subsurface scattering is the effect of light penetrating a surface that has a certain amount of translucency. Instead of light being ref. Corona Renderer Helpdesk for Cinema 4D plugin.
Sub-Surface Scattering (SSS) simulates the effect of light entering an object and scattering beneath its surface. Not all light reflects from a surface. Some of it will penetrate below the surface of an illuminated object. There it will be absorbed by the material and scattered internally. Some of this scattered light will make its way back out of the surface and become visible to the camera. This is known as 'sub-surface scattering' or 'SSS'. SSS is necessary for the realistic rendering of materials such as marble, skin, leaves, wax and milk. The SSS component in this shader is calculated using a brute-force raytracing method.
You must ensure that the geometry normals are pointing in the correct direction, otherwise SSS will not render correctly.
SSS is important when replicating realistic materials such as plastics, for example:
Color
The color used to determine the sub-surface scattering effect. For example, replicating a skin material, would mean setting this to a fleshy color.
Weight
The amount of sub-surface scattering. Multiplies the SSS Color. Below you can see the effect of adding SSS Weight:
Radius
The radius of the area each sample affects. Higher values will smooth the appearance of the sub-surface scattering. Results will vary depending on the scale of the object in your scene.Draw on my screen ez for mac. Arnold will take into account the shape and thickness of the object being lit. If it is thin enough, the object will often see light scattering out the back side, depending on the radius value (see example images below):
The lighter the color, the more light is scattered. A value of 0 will produce no scattering effect:
Increasing the radius value can radically change the appearance of the material, from looking like leather to marble.
Instead of distributing all of the colors with the same amount, you can also choose different radius values for each of the RGB colors. For example, a material like clay or skin should have a higher red radius than green and blue.
The images below show the effect when increasing the red color of the radius. Notice the colored 'fringing' effect around the edges of the circles. The same effect occurs when gaussian blurring the red channel of the source image in a compositing package.
Choose between empirical or cubic (default). If set to empirical, Arnold uses a more physically accurate subsurface scattering profile, that, with a single layer, can capture both surface detail and deep scattering.
SSS Between Objects
It is possible to tag multiple objects as belonging to the same SSS 'set' so that illumination will blur across object boundaries. A common use case might be blurring between teeth and gum geometry. It is enabled by adding the constant STRING userdata sss_setname to the same value on the objects in the set.
As well as the SSS component of the Standard shader there is also a specific Skin shader.