SSSS - New Skin Technique - Can Be Added to All Engines with Ease, Can Run On "Pretty Much Anything"

DSOGaming writes: "Back in January, we shared a video showcasing a new subsurface scattering technique called Separable Subsurface Scattering (SSSS). Karoly Zsolnai who is among the people behind this new skin technique got in touch with us and revealed some new information about it."

[DarkOcelet]

Thats good to know and its also free so its amazing.

[eyeDEVOUR]

looks really nice.. its more realistic than the suburst colored nathan drake pics that were shown a day or so ago...

[Kingdomcome247]

This looks great, but no matter what the eyes will always betray character models. We just can't recreate them properly. We can do the eye perfectly, but it's the life behind the eye that will always be missing.

[ChronoJoe]

I think that's an exaggeration. It won't always be missing. We will get there, without a doubt, we will get to the point where both environment, and biological aspects of a scene look indistinguishable from reality.

[TheCommentator]

I'm surprised with the efficiency of the coding for the given effect. That it fits on a business card? Mind. Blown.

[dcbronco]

Which kinda makes those can't do this or that on this equipment arguments moot. Elegant design always finds a way. Though small minds will always doubt.

[ChickeyCantor]

Or if you have actually worked with code; keeping your algorithms compact and your code clean isn't as easy as you might think. Especially when you're doing new stuff.

There are a plethora of scientist, this doesn't mean all of them will have world changing breakthroughs.

"Though small minds will always doubt."

Said the one not seeing the irony.

[dcbronco]

Chickey can't read. Because my comment was saying that while many go on about console A or B can and can't do this or that, smart people will find a way to get more with less. Just like AMD APUs will show more in the mainstream as more programs are designed to work in parallel. It's like when guys like Carmack say there is so much more room to grow in older equipment when you develop new methods.

[mixelon]

The video of this in action is really impressive. Anything that stops high res character skins from looking like leather/sandpaper is a good thing. :D

[Rainbowcookie]

Will be interesting to see the trade off resource wise compared to recent systems

[TheCommentator]

The algorhytm only takes a fraction of a millisecond to run a pass in full frame HD. It sounds like it runs virtually for free so the implications are huge.

[hay]

I've run the demo and on a i5 with 58XX range Radeon. Performance is pretty solid, but we need to take into consideratiom hermetic environment. It takes about 0.45milisecond in this example.

http://i.imgur.com/x9SuySr....

If you're making 60fps game with only one high-res floating head in small, empty circular room, you'd have 16 miliseconds for the rest of the game, namely: models, textures, shadows and effects on this configuration. But you could easily get 100% more performance on modern day PC or close to that for a PS4.

But real-life practical implementation is yet to be seen and measured in action since games are not made of 2 by 2 rooms with severed head inside.

And it doesn't run on my friend's i7 laptop at all which is fairly recent with appropriate Shader Model.