Lighting thin materials... E.g. plastic, paper, leaves

[multimediaman]

Hey, I was trying to light some various objects, and I figure if I were able to get a material that could show surface lighting that bled through to multiple sides, that would be great. Something like how when you shine a light on paper, you can see the other side light up as well...


Anyone know how to recreate that effect without all sorts of odd 'extra' light linking and animations?

[The IC]

isnt that a form of Subsurface Scattering? like skin and wax

[multimediaman]

it might be, but I'm clueless how to use any of that...

Does that require vray to render?

[The IC]

all i know is that mental ray has it ...vray and brazil probably have it, but ive never used em myself

and yeah, its all quite complicated, i dont really know how to use it either , but its specifically for materials like skin, wax, milk, paper...anything that isnt see through as such, but still lets light go through it

[Silent][Moebius]

http://www.aversis.be/extra_tutorial...ettings_02.htm

maybe this can help. but you need vray for rendering. on page 3 there is also a skin tut.