Got inspired by the Translucency news post...

kodde

Well... Seeing that there was a news post about translucency that actually would potentially work in the Maya viewport I gave it a go. Still work in progress, but working fairly well. There's obviously no shadows as it's Maya and even so, with this method it's not going to work perfectly on a human head.

Let me know what you think.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcsnnC2KZaQ"]Maya CGFX Shader SSS effect - YouTube[/ame]

kodde

Still need to find a better method to create the actual depth mask. I've tried with Maya's Batch Bake (Mental Ray) so far and minimal manual tweaking. Still not entirely happy with it.

arshlevon

looks pretty good so far, passed that dice paper around work today, would love to play with this if you release something.

kodde

arshlevon> Thanks. I just might release something. I want to see if I can get attenuation working as well when using with point lights.