This new SSS feature will be available in the next v14 alpha release. There are still a few issues to solve but it is already usable as is. Here are a few images and an animated light spin.

*Jaw hitting ground sound*

awesome!!!

THIS IS GREAT !!!!!
I waited for SSS a long time... the results are perfect ...... thanks Yves...

PS: dis you use SSS + Skin shader in example ???

That is incredibly beautiful!

Another great weapon added to the toolbox.

Yves... is there anywhere I can read up on this feature and how it works......?

Only SSS. No skin shader. The head have a color decal applied to it but it does not covers the back of the head (here hair should be present)..

The feature is quite easy to use and just requires specifying red, green and blue extinction distances on a group surface properties. I will post commented examples when we release the next v14 alpha version.

Beautiful! That will be so useful for giving that lovely, translucent, waxy appearance to skin.
Did you use any blur or is that all from the SSS?

WOW... Yves you out did yourself. This is totally groundbreaking!!!! As if I needed any other reasons to like Animation Master. Thanks for working so hard on these features!

-Ethan

Is it a radiosity-only extension?

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!

Thanks so much for adding this!

Sweet! How long did it take to render?

Fantastic! Good work!

No blur, no post-processing of any sort, not even antialiased (milti-pass but only one pass).

It can be used without radiosity.

wow............that is all i can really say about that. just wow

I was expecting this question.

The non-SSS render took an average of 40 seconds per frame while the SSS render took an average of 2 minutes per frame.

Wow yves! You rock the house! Fantastic!

Oh man! That is BEAUTIFUL, Yves! What an improvement to the look of skin! This is the one area where I've always felt limited using A:M. Now the limits are gone. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Jim

Oh man, Oh man, Oh man!!! It's finally ready...I can't wait to try this out. Any idea when the next alpha will be ready? I can't wait to use this for TWO.....among other things.

Thank you for the quick answer, I am very curious about those results and specific-group related sounds very, very usable

Niels

How is it with 5 pointers and hooks?

great googly moogly! that's awesome news!

when will it be available for realtime views? ' ' )

-jon

There are already 5-pointers and hooks on Nimmie Ammee's head model and they don't seem to cause any outragous artifacts.

What kind of machine are you running, Jon? I want one!

Outstanding to say the least. I can not wait to give this feature a go. Great Work Yves!

Wow !!!!! It's awesome, the result is fantastic.
Thanks a lot ! Yves.

YAAAAAYYY!!!!!! Hooray for Yves and the rest of the Hash team!!!! I've been wishing for this one, and now it's here!!

Very impressive, Yves! And the time penalty doesn't seem like a bad trade-off either.

Wow! Thank you Yves!

ok.. this one... brought a tear to my eye.

Thanks Yves

Wow, all I can say is...Wow. I've been wanting for this for years! This makes Hash A:M the best program ever! Thanks Yves and the Hash Team. I will definately find a way to upgrade this year.

Holy cow!

You use this on the TWO project... uh... people are going to take some serious notice. TWO is definitely going to create some buz.

Has anyone seen the previews for Happily N'ever After? I saw that and the first thing out of my mouth was "AM renders better than THAT!".

-vern

Yves, you have made my year! Thank you, and thanks to all of the Hash programmers! You guys are monsters!

...speechless... *


*the very VERY thankful kind of speechlessness

WHAaaaaaaa............HOoooooooooooooo *flips* then collaspe *sigh*

sings "when your in love with a beautifull programer, you go it alone"
to the tune of Dr Hook and the 5 man spline band!

Knew Yves would eventually tackle this and it looks as good as expected. Great work!! Adds so much life to Nimie.

Will the model have to be a closed solid for it to work?

No.

I have the funny feeling that I will be seeing a lot of candle renders this year Excellent Job Hash Team!

Guess I won't skip the upgrade this year either.

Congrats for the imminent release of SSS in Animation:Master!

Damn!!! that video looked pretty sweet!

Nice work hash people!

Mike Fitz
www.3dartz.com

Oh my!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Heart is pounding.
Steady, steady, deep breaths, breath, breath, deep breath, let it out slowly, slowly, repeat, repeat.

Hey Yves, I forgot to ask. Will we be using a decal map do define the area of SSS?

The SSS area is defined as a surface property either for the whole model or for a group. You can use either diffuse colors, material colors or decals for the SSS surface color.

What a difference. Does this work in NetRender?

Rusty

Very cool!
Thanks to Yves and Hash!

*Fuchur*

Looks great!
Can't wait for the v14 to be released.
Keep up the great work.

Gustavo