{"id":3629,"date":"2014-04-30T21:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2014-05-05T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:53:51","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-all-those-scatter-nodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3629","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the difference between all those Scatter nodes?"},"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>Poser Material Room offers the following nodes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"click for details\" href=\"\/?p=3613\">Skin<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click for details\" href=\"\/?p=3615\">Subsurface Skin<\/a>\u00a0(Poser 8 \/ Pro 2012 and up),<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click for details\" href=\"\/?p=3621\">Scatter<\/a> (Poser 8 \/ Pro 2012 and up),<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click for details\" href=\"\/?p=3625\">CustomScatter<\/a> (Poser 8 \/ Pro 2012 and up),<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click for details\" href=\"\/?p=3627\">FastScatter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>addressing scattering of light within an object surface (skin) layer.<\/p>\n<p>From these, <strong>CustomScatter<\/strong> is the most generic, does require the SubSurface Scattering (SSS) option in the Render Settings, and provides direct access to all parameters of the mechanism. Which, by the way, are nice words telling that I\u2019m on my own finding the appropriate values for them. As it actually deals with the light rays scattering within the surface layer, it takes the most resources and render time. And gives the \u2018best\u2019, most manageable results in return.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subsurface Skin<\/strong> then is a derivative of CustomScatter, dedicated to (human) skin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scatter<\/strong> on the other hand offers the possibility to pick a preset, based on something similar to what I want to accomplish. It does not use the SubSurface Scattering option in the Render Settings, and so it takes (far) less time and resources for rendering, but the results might be somewhat less realistic. They are less manageable anyway, but is does resemble scattering to some extent.<\/p>\n<p>The ones just mentioned above are available in Poser 8 \/ Pro 2012 and up. The ones mentioned below are available in earlier versions as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Skin<\/strong> itself is just a combination of regular material properties, dedicated to (human) skin. It presents the diffuse, specular and ambient properties of a Poser material in a balanced way and mimics the waxiness of skin in a classical way, as used in the earlier versions of Poser. It does not use the subsurface scattering as referred to in the Render Options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FastScatter<\/strong> is an early, and 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 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/?p=3631\">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 Poser Material Room offers the following nodes Skin, Subsurface Skin\u00a0(Poser 8 \/ Pro 2012 and up), Scatter (Poser &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What\u2019s the difference between all those Scatter nodes?&#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-3629","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\/3629","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=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}