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kotik
05-07-2005, 06:53 PM
It took forever to find a picture of what I am trying to, and ironically it was a tutorial on translucency, but it was not application specific.

http://leigh.cgcommunity.com/site_images/dummies/part6/pt6_02.jpg

Basically, what I am trying to do is show something glowing behind a layer of skin.

I have tried a few things, and the closest look was where I have a semi-transparent layer with a high-res image of human skin.

Behind it, is a solid with a mask cut out of it (text), and then behind the text is a light.
Im basically projecting the light through the lens.. and it works, but it is not convinging as far as the coloring goes with the skin.

Any suggestions on getting it to get that glow?
berniebernie
05-12-2005, 06:44 PM
The whole point of translucency is to make light travel through a material and illuminate parts of it (the best examples imo are wax and flesh)... The thing is it is very much related to geometry, and you can see from the picture that where your hand is composed of loads of internal materials (bones, muscles etc...) light does not traval as well, and in places where there is almost only skin, light travels through it, hence the use of translucency in 3d and not 2d (although subsurface scattering renders take ages, they are quite faithful to real-world)

The work around would be to fake it using your human knowledge of anatomy, and draw a b/w map of your hand and then set it to a dodge/lighten/glow mode
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