Hello, I recently discovered Appleseed and haven’t used it yet (I don’t have Max or Maya, so I might be out of luck anyway). I was wondering, does the software support a feature whereby overlapping/intersecting closed meshes can be treated as a single SSS volume? That can be a very handy feature in some cases.
Thanks.
Hello, welcome Adrian!
It currently doesn’t, but it would be fairly easy to implement.
This is an interesting idea so I created a ticket to keep track of it: https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/issues/1229
You actually don’t need Max or Maya to play with appleseed. If you want to get a feeling for how it works, you can just use the bunded appleseed.studio application. You can also try playing with Gaffer which has a full-featured appleseed integration: http://www.gafferhq.org/
Wow, thanks for the strong response. Much appreciated!
FYI, SSS sets have been implemented and will be available in the next release.
Thanks, that’s good news. 
(I don’t have Max or Maya, so I might be out of luck anyway).
There is also an add-on for Blender called Blenderseed
Cool, I had almost forgotten about this. I’m a Blender user, so I will definitely give this a try!
Show us what you did please!