Am 12.03.2011 20:47, schrieb nemesis:

>> The image does seem to be missing something. That's a problem with SSLT,
>> it is back to the days of slooow renders. :-(
>
> BTW, I thought povray's SSLT (why not the more common SSS?) was supposed to
> optimize away media-based SSS.

Patience, people! Performance improvements are yet to come; the current 
implementation is still a most basic brute-force approach.

As for using more common SSS algorithms, they all require UV-mapped 
meshes to work, and therefore are unsuited for use in POV-Ray in their 
original form, and either produce far inferior results (simple depht-map 
based SSS), wouldn't give any significant performance benefits when 
adapted accordingly while still being physically less accurate 
(oversampled depth-map based SSS), or simply cannot be adapted to 
POV-Ray at all (texture space diffusion).

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