Extended Translucency - Community Shaders

Overview

Community Shaders feature which provides a photo realistic render for translucent materials like thin fabric and stained glass.

This effect makes the material more opaque when seeing it from the side and creating a "rim edge" effect.

For example, the crease in a lace sleeve will be much more structured, and glass bottles more antique.

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Settings

You can use the END key to open Community Shaders setting menu. Go to the Extended Translucency section:

Material Models

This option controls how the material's opacity react to view direction.

• []Disabled (0): No anisotropic transluency

  []Rim Light (1): Naive rim light effect. Not based on physical model.

  []Isotropic Fabric (2): Imaginary fabric weaved from threads in one direction, respect normal map.

  []Anisotropic Fabric (3): (Recommended) Common fabric weaved from tangent and binormal direction but cannot benefit from normal map (Skyrim's tangent/binormal/normal interplanetary data are not affected by normal map).

  Note: This option is a global default, each nif mesh can set its own value override this, see modders section for how to change it.
  Note: While not specifically modeled, these materials work well for impure glass with low transparency.

  Transparency Increase

  Translucent material will make the material more opaque on average, which could be different from the intent, reduce the alpha to counter this effect and increase the dynamic range of the output.

  Change this slider yourself to fit your taste. You can then reduce the alpha channel in the texture yourself based on it.

  Note for modders: This effect deduces the fabric thread's thickness and density from the texture's original alpha value. For example, a 0. 5 alpha translates to ThreadThickness:ThreadSpaces = 1:1 in Isotropic Fabric model (so that the area allow light to pass is 0. 5 when looking from surface normal), thus the alpha is mostly linear with the "xxxD nylonis denser" parameter.

  Skinned Mesh Only

  Prevent this effect from applying to static meshes. Can help to fix strange transparency related rendering artifacts.

  This option is currently ON BY DEFAULT, prevents you from seeing th