Here's a little preview of what you're currently waiting for:
Here's some images, one dragon with and one without SSS, and a lego technic car with some crude SSS materials.
We have fully working and VERY fast SSS ready for release in the next test version.
It renders about as fast (a tiny bit slower) as a glossy specular material.
And, it's unbiased/bruteforce SSS, eg no bias introducing photon grids or other precomputed approximations.
- SSS dragon, ~12 minutes on 1x GTX460
- non-SSS reference dragon, ~7 mins on 1x GTX460
- lego car, SSS on most mats, ~14 mins on 1x GTX460
In the first release, we will have 2 medium node types, an absorption only node (but 3d texturable!), and an SSS node, with choice of phase functions. (single scattering only for now, but it's very practical and usefull already)
This is the prime new feature in the next test release, along with instancing support and FAST voxelisation, and another suprise feature,
aswell as the soon to be publically released first of a series of new products, OctaneRender for 3DS Max.
We hope this satisfies your long wait for a new version.
I can't give any timeframe, as you know me, it's never accurate and always later anyway
But it's definately weeks, not months
Radiance
