SSS Maps - Blender cycles??

melviso

I have been trying out sss shader in cycles. I was wondering about sss maps.

Found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLfTeabD94

The artist is painting a greyscale map for the sss. Due to the low res of the video, I can't make out where he plugged in this map. Is this for the scale slot of the sss shader or the radius slot?

I would appreciate any input from anyone familiar with this technique. Thanks.

ProperSquid

Most likely scale since radius is a "vector" (accepts 3 values), and the grayscale (while probably r/g/b) is only representing a "scalar" (accepts 1 value).

Although, I think at this point, you could use either/ or because I think radius controls the scale per r/g/b channel, while scale controls all channels.

Hopefully that makes sense!

melviso

Okay. Thanks.