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Forum Archive › What’s the difference between how to use subsurface vs translucent? › Reply To: What’s the difference between how to use subsurface vs translucent?
Maybe a lame way to think about it is, Subsurface is for skin, translucent for candles and stuff like that? I image that colored paper that is semi-transparent for translucency.