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SkinSSS - Subsurface Scattering & Custom Skin Shading (Beta)

Paid Plugins + Scripts SkinSSS - Subsurface Scattering & Custom Skin Shading (Beta)

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-- Description:
- Plugin that aims to increase skin rendering realism by replacing the native skin shader with added screen-space subsurface scattering approximation.

-- Contents:
- SkinSSS script files, mask texture files and shaders packed in an assetbundle file.

-- How to use?
- Simply load SkinSSS.cslist on a person atom.

-- Features:
- Highly optimized, Only takes up about 2ms to 3ms of frame time. (can further decrease settings for better fps)
- Smart masking from diffuse color darkness, to mask areas like eyebrows, hair scalp and tattoos.
- Refined masking with scaling feature to expand the mask to prevent metallic clothing lighting from leaking onto skin.
- Skin Tessellation for smooth skin curvature with masking feature, with default mask textures that exclude the scalp area to prevent clipping with scalp meshes.
- Custom physically based shading model based on Unity's GGX BRDF. (similar to blender)
- VR rendering supported.
- Subsurface scattering & translucency approximation.
- Supports VaM's native window camera, screenshot cameras and postmagic's supershot screenshot camera.
- Darkness Attenuation feature, Excludes SSS from dark features like eyebrows, scalp or tattoos.
- Tooltips system for detailed explanation for each plugin UI element.
- Can load your own custom SSS & Tessellation mask textures.

-- Note:
- Due to usage of a fully custom shader workflow, the skin material parameters in the person atom tabs won't affect the skin anymore. You can customize the skin in the plugin UI instead.

-- Main Preview:


-- Light scattering approximation preview:


-- Tessellation with scalp area masking preview:


-- Refined mask preview:


-- Darkness Attenuation Preview: (brows, scalp and tattoos mask)


-- Comparison snaps with different settings, left is no SSS, center is subtle default SSS and right is intense SSS:
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-- Video clip credits:
- @ddaamm for short hair 9 scalp.

-- Plugin reference credits:
- @MacGruber for Utils.
- @regguise for CustomShaderLoader.
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i'm not subscribed and haven't used this but this looks amazing!
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First version and already indispensible. Highly recommended.

I've yet to familiarize myself with all the functions but the basics seem to work great and the menu is easy enough to understand.
The only issue is current incompatibility with "SkinMicroDetail" allthough I think it's for the developer of that app to not override these shaders.

All and all, another banger from Skynet!
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