Translucancy and Brightness

[Matt]

@ Matt, does the setting information you provided on translucency apply to say a plant which will need to show an even greater amount (than, say leaves) of backlighting or glow quality like the Xfrog "Cholla" that has/needs a very pronounced lighting presence against an over all darker background?

Yeah, it might be useful to give the impression of scattered light from fine hairs. But it's not really an ideal solution because really you'd want that effect to happen only when looking close to the direction of the sun. But if it works for a particular image, then yes you could use that.

Matt

[Oshyan]

Replicating that leaf image closely might be possible through either an increase in Exposure, or adjustments to GI Strength on Surfaces. I grant that the "easiest" way to do it is through translucency above 1 though. I'm not sure whether this is just realism clashing with our idea of what it "should" look like, or simply due to lack of simulation of some important additional parameter.

- Oshyan