3ds max: Recommendations for Real-Time Skin Shader?

BradMyers82

Hey guys. Some of you may have seen my Anatomy studies thread, and I'm gearing up to make some realistic skin textures.

I'm currently trying to work out a decent workflow for this and was wondering if anyone can help.


Since I work with games, I don't see any point in using a fancy mental ray render (sss fast skin material), so I'm not really interested in that.

But what I was wondering is what do you guys do to create realistic real-time skin in 3ds max.

Does anyone know of a good real-time shader?


I know of the shader fx realtime shader that has SSS capabilities, but I wanted to know if there is anything better out there.

Has anyone gotten really good results with Xoliul shader?


More specifically, I would like to know if there is a 3ds max real time shader that can handle these slots:

-diffuse
-specular
-normal
-epidermal
-subdermal
-gloss
-Reflection


If this is simply asking too much for real-time what's the next best thing?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Eric Chadwick

J.I. Styles' shader might float your boat.
http://www.jistyles.com/main.php?id=doc&page=hlsl

Mark Dygert

shaderfx has some subsurface scattering techniques. It's worth checking out.

http://www.lumonix.biz/Media/ShaderFX_subsurfaceScatteringDemo.html

Eric Chadwick

I added more shader links to the wiki.
http://wiki.polycount.net/CategoryShaders

BradMyers82

Hey guys thanks a lot for the responses!

I think I'm going to give J.I. styles shader a try.
Here is an image I found off his site that has me convinced its really good:


I'll run some tests soon, and I'll post results here when I can.

Thanks!