{"id":3627,"date":"2014-04-30T21:55:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:54:23","slug":"whats-the-special-fastscatter-node-used-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3627","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Special > FastScatter node used for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nodes are the essential building blocks in the Advanced interface to the Poser Material Room. They are the graphical representation of mathematical function calls, that is: calculation procedures which turn parameters (inputs) to a result (output).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intermediate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like all special nodes, the FastScatter node also provides diffuse, specular and eventually more as an all-in-one offer. Just black-out (or nullify) the regular Diffuse, Specular and other properties of the PoserSurface, and plug the node into Alternate Diffuse.<\/p>\n<p>FastScatter is an early, simple \u2013 and according to the manual outdated \u2013 way of representing SubSurface Scattering. It does not use the subsurface scattering as referred to in the Render Options.<\/p>\n<p>Besides a single <strong>Color<\/strong> entry, the choice is for <strong>None<\/strong> (demonstrated in the right pawn base in the image below), <strong>Light<\/strong> (pawn column) or <strong>Strong<\/strong> (pawn head) material. The left pawn in the render shows regular diffuse and specular, for comparison.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/postpmra\/PMRA.57.01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click for details\" href=\"\/?p=3629\">This article <\/a>presents a comparison of the various skin and scattering nodes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/?p=3629\">Next &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nodes are the essential building blocks in the Advanced interface to the Poser Material Room. They are the graphical representation of mathematical function calls, that is: calculation procedures which turn parameters (inputs) to a result (output). Intermediate Like all special nodes, the FastScatter node also provides diffuse, specular and eventually more as an all-in-one offer. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What\u2019s the Special > FastScatter node used for?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145,133],"series":[127],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poser","tag-material-room","tag-poser","series-matroom-intermediate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}