Metahuman Skin - SSS, Transmission and Subsurface Profiles in Unreal Engine 5

A brief discussion about using Subsurface scattering & Subsurface Profile Shading with your Metahuman Skin, to obtain more natural looking Metahumans.

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[DevRelated]

Thanks for this tutorial! I tried enabling transmission on the point light but it nothing changes. Is there other settings you need to have enabled?

[MrSheduur]

if you want softer shadows - use a bigger light source, do not mess with the sss radius or your character will look unrealistic in different light conditions. keep it base, adjust your lights, otherwise you will only end up confusing yourself and wondering what went wrong. the standard settings are pretty realistic, and sss color usually has values around RGB 48% 17% 11% for light skin and RGB 36% 13% 7% for dark skin. Those are measured values from tests with humans so they should work for most characters. Your crazy pink made her look like a plastic doll :)

[rixread]

This is insane. Thank you for helping us!!

[gabocavallaro]

Master! thanks I always struggle with this settings without knowing really well how im affecting my model, until now! super clear. Also as the other user mentioned a note is that in order to work fine the light needs to be set as movable. Great content!" thanks!

[solofilmmaking]

10:50 i'm really light this little green light, soft and so beautiful

[turalmemmedov]

Wait a minute? Is this new? I searched about years but didnt found this function. Thank you very much.

[DesignsbyElement]

You're pretty awesome. When I randomly look up a tutorial, it brings me to your channel. I enjoy the video and look to subscribe... then guess what???...I'm already subscribed. Hahahaha. Great job bro!

[bcklmk_irl]

That was super stuff... i didn't touch feature yet, as i thought thats way to much time effort, but after watching this why wouldn't i... Thanks for the video.

[themidstream]

these are the best videos I found on metahumans, any tips on attaching a video sequence of a real face? just the facial part, the rest of the head will be metahuman. thank you

[connorpannellfilm]

What shortcut button are you hitting to open up the SSP profile window? Cant find how to get that

[sulivarace]

Good morning,

Do you know if we can easily transpose the human meta shader skin on another body that I exported from Blender?

[Djonsing]

When I turn on the directional light SunSky, the transmission of the skin turns out to be very unnaturally bright, but on RectLight it's normal

[liquos]

Sound at 7:00 made me feel like the killer was standing behind me the entire time.

[pawpotsRS]

I was wondering, is this optimize compared to the subsurface without profile?

[elenadmpl]

Hey hello great tutorial! I used it and in the start my metahuman skin turned black do you know about it?

[Djonsing]

For some reason, in new versions of Unreal 5.3 the transmission in light sources is blocked