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Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows (Out Of Beta)

Paid Plugins Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows (Out Of Beta)

can you tell time interval between frame drop.
It's a memory leak issue... I also have this.
Heap size grows every 0.5 -1sec by 10-20mb, when it grows too big the garbage collector runs to reduce the heap size, that causes the stuttering (complete freeze for me for 1 sec in VR, worst cases computer freezes...) without the plugin nothing of the sort happens. Would be really nice if this got finally fixed. Happens every 20-30ish seconds...
 
It's a memory leak issue... I also have this.
Heap size grows every 0.5 -1sec by 10-20mb, when it grows too big the garbage collector runs to reduce the heap size, that causes the stuttering (complete freeze for me for 1 sec in VR, worst cases computer freezes...) without the plugin nothing of the sort happens. Would be really nice if this got finally fixed. Happens every 20-30ish seconds...

Can confirm. It really reduces the uses of this plugin as its constant and inevitable. There is nothing you can do with your scene to stop it filling up the heap.

This means if you want to record a video of an animation thats more than 30 seconds long, you will either need to disable this plugin, or manually edit your video after to remove the freezed frames
 
It's a memory leak issue... I also have this.
Heap size grows every 0.5 -1sec by 10-20mb, when it grows too big the garbage collector runs to reduce the heap size, that causes the stuttering (complete freeze for me for 1 sec in VR, worst cases computer freezes...) without the plugin nothing of the sort happens. Would be really nice if this got finally fixed. Happens every 20-30ish seconds...
i fixed a memory leak issue while ago, memory usage was stable, which version of plugin you are using?
 
Hunting-Succubus updated Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows (Out Of Beta) with a new update entry:

(Major Update) Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows Ver 8

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Updates -
Plugin had major Memory Leak, was increasing Heap Size very quickly.
This issue is almost fixed now. Memory usage should be stable.
VR mode should no longer Shutter or Freeze, FPS should be stable.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/91399255/
Thanks For Support...

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Hunting-Succubus updated Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows (Out Of Beta) with a new update entry:

(Session Plugin) Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows Ver 9

Updates -
1. - Added user requested feature - Female only mode, to save some performance.
2. - Memory Leak is now also fixed for Session Plugin.


Plugin had major Memory Leak, was increasing Heap Size very quickly.
This issue is almost fixed now. Memory usage should be stable.
VR mode should no longer shutter or freeze, FPS should be stable.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/92597454

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Still having the same issue with Version 9 of the plug-in: heap size is growing quite rapidly. It's definitely the SubSurface plugin as nothing else is applied. Can't really use it now unfortunately since it causes problems with recording video.

By the way, the plug-ins still say "version 1" since forever so maybe you could update that to avoid confusion?
 
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When I go to download it, the Mega link and title says that its version ver 8, not 9, which is confusing cuz I have a version 9 already, so VaM just keeps wanting to load the borked version of 9 and not a new version. The Files inside the version for the "new" 9 also says they haven't been touched since September which lines up with the original ver 8. I think the wrong link might have been posted for the updated ver9? Cuz it's also the same link in the Version 8 release notes. Now I'm just really confused as to whats what here, and if the fixed version was even linked? Also the Female Only mode isn't present in the var version posted on the latest updated patreon post of version 9. So I think the incorrect version was posted.
 
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Hello, this plugin looks very beautiful. I want to use it, but which tier should I subscribe to your Patreon page to use it? I want to test it first, and if it works well, I may use it for commercial purposes.
 
Any hope for an update fixing decals, like wet stuff from VS1 and so on?
Since i started using this i can't turn back :)
 
Is this plugin worth getting in March 2024? and if so which Patron tier is enough to get it?
I personally wouldn't recommend any purchase until the definitive problems have been fixed utterly, or the price has been lowered. To pay $20 for a plugin that has so many broken iterations of itself released constantly, especially and seemingly deliberately each release having something moderately troublesome/broken with it, is beyond comprehension at that price tag.

I would recommend getting comfortable with Reshade and the Shaders you can use to enhance your scenes visually if you are into screenshot taking and video recording. But that is my personal take on the question at hand ?‍♂️.
 
Hunting-Succubus updated Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows (Out Of Beta) with a new update entry:

Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows Ver 10

Updates

1. Fixed Error -
!> Exception ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out of range.

2. SSS should be compatible with ImprovePOV and Embody.
In VR mode SSS should no longer show red overlay on invisible parts.
when skin.materialsEnabled = false or Skin Materials's AlphaAdjust = -1, SSS will be not applied to this materials...

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I have scalp problem with some hair style, when I turn tessellation off, and it's gone. Do you have some solution about it? I tried adjust value about scalp in plugin, but it not effective.
 
I personally wouldn't recommend any purchase until the definitive problems have been fixed utterly, or the price has been lowered. To pay $20 for a plugin that has so many broken iterations of itself released constantly, especially and seemingly deliberately each release having something moderately troublesome/broken with it, is beyond comprehension at that price tag.

I would recommend getting comfortable with Reshade and the Shaders you can use to enhance your scenes visually if you are into screenshot taking and video recording. But that is my personal take on the question at hand ?‍♂️.
It's just so incompatible with so many things I use for all my scenes. It's neat, but in the end, not really worth the money. Same with the toon shader. It's a cool effect, but makes the models look completely out of place.
 
Hunting-Succubus updated Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows (Out Of Beta) with a new update entry:

Subsurface Scattering Skin & Better Soft Shadows Ver 12

Major Updates for VR

  • 1.Increased SSS Quality and Sharpness by increasing SSS filter resolution to 2x (width only).
  • 2. Fixed - Right eye had lower resolution SSS effect then Left eye resulting in pixelated effect.
  • 3. Reduced Shadow border glowing & bleeding.

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I'd love to try it out, but I have to be honest: the Patreon for it is still one of the worst I've ever seen. 20 dollars for immediate access is absurd pricing for a plugin, 12 dollars more expensive than VaM's Creator tier, and the same price as Captain Hardcore's full-featured version. On the two occasions I subscribed to this tier to try out versions of SSS, they both came with severe memory leaks. The subsurface effect was good but the constant freezing rendered the plugin unusable for me.

The leak has been supposedly fixed since then but that was 40 dollars ago and I'm not willing to spend yet another 20 to find out. There is seemingly no free demo to test, and the cheaper timed-access tier is confusing at best and misleading at worst:

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A while ago some of the cheaper tiers were locked and marked for deletion (good, because they really sucked and had no reason to exist), which gave me hope that this Patreon was going to go through some deeper changes. But this is yet another SSS release that costs 20 dollars to try out with potentially serious bugs, so... yeah. Not to suggest that this plugin is easy to make, obviously it isn't, but this is just wildly overpriced by any sane metric.
 
Can anyone confirm whether the most recent version fixed the memory leak? Tested previous versions that had this issue which basically rendered this plugin unusable.
 
The skin Tessellation within the script will overwrite my other skin Tessellation scripts, which makes me sad.
 
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