sss skin freezing up at render time

#1

I have a problem with the sub-surface scattering skin shader. When I render a scene with this shader applied to an object, the program freezes right before it begins to render (the render dialog box will say “current task: rendering” but will not move), then after some time (sometimes minutes) it will continue and start to render the image. This only seems to happen when rendering a scene that uses SSS Skin. Does anyone know why it is doing this and how I might solve the problem?

#2

the sss shader needs some precalculated data, and this “freezing” does exactly this :wink:

#3

It is calculating the light map. If you have the mr message window open at rendertime, you will see the progress of this. Just watching it might make it seem a little faster:applause: .

Regards,
Mike

#4

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