-- Description:
- Plugin that aims to increase skin rendering realism by replacing the native skin shader with added screen-space subsurface scattering & translucency approximation.
-- Contents:
- SkinSSS script files, mask texture files and shaders packed in an assetbundle file.
-- How to use?
- Simply load SkinSSS.cslist as a session plugin, Alternatively you can also load it on female person atom or as a scene plugin.
-- Features:
- Highly optimized, Only takes up about 1ms of frame time.
- Subsurface scattering approximation with a fixed diffusion profile.
- Translucency approximation.
- Skin details feature, Tiled normal maps for higher skin fidelity at close up viewing distances.
- Multi person atom support with manager to selectively apply the effect to person atoms in scene.
- Toggle to use GGX reflectance shading model. (similar to blender)
- SSS Luminance range feature, Excludes SSS from dark features like eyebrows, scalp or tattoos.
- VR rendering supported.
- Depth mask with Dilation feature to prevent metallic clothing lighting from leaking onto skin.
- Stencil mask for accurate vam hair strands & clothing occlusion.
- Adaptive Tessellation for better skin geometry resolution without affecting performance by much, with default mask textures that exclude the scalp area to prevent clipping with scalp meshes.
- Supports VaM's native window camera, screenshot cameras and Macgruber's SuperShot high resolution screenshot camera.
- Tooltips system for detailed explanation for each plugin UI element.
- Can load your own custom SSS, Tessellation, Tessellation override & Skin Details textures.
- Preset system.
-- Tips:
- To benefit from the accurate stencil based mask, make sure to set render queue:
* opaque clothing to 1999 or less.
* transparent clothing to 2501 or more.
- To further improve performance lower "SSS Denoiser" value or disable it altogether from the toggle.
- To save performance in desktop mode, make sure to manually select the camera used as the plugin will render on all active cameras with Auto-Detect selected which can tank fps if multiple cameras are enabled for example both player view camera + window camera.
-- Main Preview:
(in this preview it is loaded as a person plugin but it's better to load it as a session plugin for convenience)
-- Comparison snaps for various skin tones:
* Left is no SSS.
* Center is SSS default values.
* Right is Scaler value at 12 with SSS blend at 0.80.
-- Comparison snaps for genitals:
* Left is no SSS.
* Center is SSS default values.
* Right is Scaler value at 12 with SSS blend at 0.80.
-- Comparison snaps for body:
* Top is no SSS.
* Center is SSS default values.
* Bottom is Scaler value at 12 with SSS blend at 0.80.
-- Plugin reference credits:
- @MacGruber for Utils.
- @regguise for CustomShaderLoader.
- Plugin that aims to increase skin rendering realism by replacing the native skin shader with added screen-space subsurface scattering & translucency approximation.
-- Contents:
- SkinSSS script files, mask texture files and shaders packed in an assetbundle file.
-- How to use?
- Simply load SkinSSS.cslist as a session plugin, Alternatively you can also load it on female person atom or as a scene plugin.
-- Features:
- Highly optimized, Only takes up about 1ms of frame time.
- Subsurface scattering approximation with a fixed diffusion profile.
- Translucency approximation.
- Skin details feature, Tiled normal maps for higher skin fidelity at close up viewing distances.
- Multi person atom support with manager to selectively apply the effect to person atoms in scene.
- Toggle to use GGX reflectance shading model. (similar to blender)
- SSS Luminance range feature, Excludes SSS from dark features like eyebrows, scalp or tattoos.
- VR rendering supported.
- Depth mask with Dilation feature to prevent metallic clothing lighting from leaking onto skin.
- Stencil mask for accurate vam hair strands & clothing occlusion.
- Adaptive Tessellation for better skin geometry resolution without affecting performance by much, with default mask textures that exclude the scalp area to prevent clipping with scalp meshes.
- Supports VaM's native window camera, screenshot cameras and Macgruber's SuperShot high resolution screenshot camera.
- Tooltips system for detailed explanation for each plugin UI element.
- Can load your own custom SSS, Tessellation, Tessellation override & Skin Details textures.
- Preset system.
-- Tips:
- To benefit from the accurate stencil based mask, make sure to set render queue:
* opaque clothing to 1999 or less.
* transparent clothing to 2501 or more.
- To further improve performance lower "SSS Denoiser" value or disable it altogether from the toggle.
- To save performance in desktop mode, make sure to manually select the camera used as the plugin will render on all active cameras with Auto-Detect selected which can tank fps if multiple cameras are enabled for example both player view camera + window camera.
-- Main Preview:
(in this preview it is loaded as a person plugin but it's better to load it as a session plugin for convenience)
-- Comparison snaps for various skin tones:
* Left is no SSS.
* Center is SSS default values.
* Right is Scaler value at 12 with SSS blend at 0.80.
-- Comparison snaps for genitals:
* Left is no SSS.
* Center is SSS default values.
* Right is Scaler value at 12 with SSS blend at 0.80.
-- Comparison snaps for body:
* Top is no SSS.
* Center is SSS default values.
* Bottom is Scaler value at 12 with SSS blend at 0.80.
-- Plugin reference credits:
- @MacGruber for Utils.
- @regguise for CustomShaderLoader.
