Making decent skin with Max's standard material?

SuperOstrich

Hey guys, a friend of mine needs to make a character that has at least decent skin but only using Max's standard material. Since I've basically never had to do any pre-rendered work in my career, I'm not even quite sure there are any tricks he can use. Does anyone know of any tricks or tutorials on how you can fake a good skin material? Thanks!

JordanW

Using a falloff node for the diffuse lets you define a color gradient to be mapped across the surface using facing angle, light angle etc. This can help create skin so that you can fake SSS by making it go slightly red near the edge of the lighting.

Rick Stirling

I've done nice stuff in the past by layering up shellac maps with speckle and smoke maps.

There is a VERY good tutorial out there in French somewhere, I'll see if I can find the link.

Mark Dygert

This might help ya

http://www.maxforums.org/thread.aspx?tid=354076

SuperOstrich

Thanks a lot guys, my friend found it pretty easy to use the Shellac technique. He's messing around with it now and is confident it'll work well.