SSS Anisotropy (MaterialX) - negative values not available

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Possible bug report.

MaterialX Standard Surface shader has Subsurface Anisotropy parameter (subsurface_anisotropy). The tooltip of this parameter, as well as its docs entry, state the following:

The direction of subsurface scattering. 0 scatters light evenly, positive values scatter forward and negative values scatter backward.

In Houdini 19.5.640 it's not possible to set this parameter to negative values (and I recall that it was possible in older versions). For some reason, this parameter's lowest end of the range that it accepts is hardlocked to 0.
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Known issue. In the meantime you can use a constant to drive this parameter and use negative values.
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It works. Thanks for the workaround.
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