Skin Materials

Controls properties of the materials that are categorized as skin materials.

Skin materials uses a special skin shader that enables subsurface scattering and has a procedural detail map that simulates detail textures of human skin.

Subsurface scaterring conflicts with metallic effect so if you use metallic effect on top of skin materials, the subsurface scattering effect will be disabled.

Categorization

The system automatically puts materials that are named with certain keywords into the skin category. However this can sometimes be wrong, so you can manually assign materials to this category.

How materials are categorized

Settings

Thickness: Thickness of the skin. This controls how much light is scattered inside the skin.
Subsurface Intensity: Intensity of the subsurface scattering effect.
Gloss: Glossiness of the skin.
Detail Size: Size of the detail texture.
Detail Map Bump: Intensity of the normal map of the detail texture.
Detail Map Smooth: Smoothness of the detail texture.
Detail Map AO: Ambient occlusion of the detail texture.
Detail Mask: Controls for detail masks, including flip options and gloss property adjustments.
Override Mask: Override mask settings in the Skin Shader.
Occlusion: Default occlusion effect is set to 0 for skin materials to prevent darkening issues.
Wetness Effect: Turn on wet mode when a wet texture is available for an enhanced wet appearance.
Bump Effects: Adjust the bump effect of the wetness texture for more realism.

Shader improvements (v2026.2)

DanceXR 2026.2 updates the skin shader to provide a more realistic skin texture appearance, improving how lighting and detail interact with skin materials across all supported platforms.