Fallout 4/Bloodborne shading technique?

vlad_the_implyer · Nov 2015

Is there a specific name or a way to achieve the shading that's used on characters in Fallout 4 and gear and characters in Bloodborne? It's very smooth and even wax-like.

Here's a sample, i can't find the exact lighting conditions to show it off in FO4, but in Bloodborne everything looks like that.

Farfarer · Nov 2015

My guess is it's some variant of deferred SSS (sub-surface scattering).

They all have silly acronyms with lots of 'S's, but I can't be sure which particular version an engine uses;
SSSSS (screen-space subsurface scattering)
SSSS (separable sub-surface scattering)
etc...

Millenia · Nov 2015

I'm pretty sure Fallout 4 uses screen-space subsurface scattering, at least there's files referring to SSSSS in the game archives.

vlad_the_implyer · Nov 2015

Thanks! It seems that Bloodborne uses separable SSS and Fallout 4 uses screen-space SSS and overall mid-res quality of the assets brings those two looks closer together. Cheers!

echofourpapa · Nov 2015

So, the moral of the story is the more 'S's in the name, the better the skin?

Panupat · Nov 2015

I don't see anything out of ordinary here. Except maybe nice, big, soft light. The rim light hitting the chin of that character on the top right is pretty nice.

Fallout 4/Bloodborne shading technique?

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