bagginsbill posted at 8:37AM Sat, 19 August 2017 - #4312513

Are you talking about the thin, bright area where the shadow should be deepest?

If you are, everybody (except Jura) is leading you astray as it has nothing to do with shaders (unless the shader has AO in it). I suspect you're using AO in the lighting with an incorrect bias, or perhaps just wrong bias in general.

It could also be you've encountered a bug in the renderer. I didn't read all of the above in detail so forgive me asking - are you caught up on service releases? They fixed many bugs over a long time.

What would you suggest I do with the Bias? I must agree on this and say it is most liking a lighting issue and not really a skin texture problem. I've used SSS a lot of times and the same light settings on other renders and never got any glow or problems, then there are times when it just randomly happens, I did install their service release though unless there is a way I can uninstall it and reinstall again. I still don't know what the cause of the glow is, it happens mostly when I use IBL or HDRI lights.