Comments on: Fast fake SSS

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:23:52 +0000

martin: make sure you’ve added a new image, with the faces of the object selected in UV face select mode.

bg: I don’t know. Blender will have real SSS when some generous coder steps up and implements it. Right now, there don’t seem to be any plans to do so. Will I make it? No, I can’t.

By: bg

bg — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:04:37 +0000

Hi Matt,
I am working 90% with Maya and 10% with Blender.
And this is one reason: there are no “real” materials for Blender!
When will blender f.e. have finally real SSS??
With fake SSS you will never get real skin!

Will you make it?

By: martin

martin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:50:20 +0000

sorry matt but i cant seem to get the baked UV mapped to appear in the UV/image editor screen - I’m applying the bake full render but it does appear to be working

any pointers for a newbie

By: martin

martin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:45:30 +0000

cheers matt for that - hopefully I can get some time later to check it out

tks again

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:53:40 +0000

Thanks for the kind comments!

martin: Nothing special;, just spot lights. I uploaded the .blend file so you can see for yourself. The file’s not exactly in a click-and-go state to see the results above, but shouldn’t be difficult to figure out, given the instructions above.

http://mke3.net/projects/tests/fakesss/fakesss2.blend.zip

By: Lassi (ook)

Lassi (ook) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:38:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing! This is the first fake SSS technique I feel really comfortable using.

By: martin

martin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:06:59 +0000

As Always Matt excellent post - what kind of lighting setup are you using for the inital render, is it a combination of soft spots and area lighting

keep up the good work - always love visiting the site as I usually pick up something new each time

later
M

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:58:24 +0000

Hi tikki,

You can give it a new image texture by having your faces selected in UV face select mode, and doing Image->New in the image editor. The baking options are in the top ‘Render’ menu.

By: tikki

tikki — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:05:56 +0000

i feel kinda dumb, but how do i “give it a new image texture and do a Bake Render Meshes â†’ Full Render, to get a baked image of that lighting information”

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:22:34 +0000

Thanks for the vote of confidence at least :) The thought of writing like that crosses my mind from time to time. If I would do it though, I’d be interested in doing more advanced stuff like about the details of how Blender’s renderer works, the pipeline, and all those sorts of technical things that aren’t really documented anywhere, but you just learn from experience and talking to people like Ton. There’s nowhere near enough documentation for Blender that’s at an advanced level - it’s all aimed at newbies, which is a shame, it keeps people at that beginner level.

But I’m not into that at the present. Right now, while I have the opportunity, I’d rather spend my working time creating 3D than teaching about it! :)

By: Dan Boyle

Dan Boyle — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:44:29 +0000

ohh… a book would be nice (I’d buy it!)

interesting article too, as always.

-Dan

By: Rui Campos

Rui Campos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:38:11 +0000

Indeed it works out nicely.

You should really make a book on Blender Materials, Lighting and Compositing, I would buy it and surely alot more people would.

– Rui –