Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
# 1 21-07-2008 , 03:42 AM
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making lights

hi all a im noob attempting to model my first car.......now im about to model the lights for my car but i have no idea how im going to make them transparent any ideas

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# 2 21-07-2008 , 09:36 AM
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The transparency attribute is for the material applied to the model, not the model itself, so when you make the glass material for the lights you can set its translucence to whatever you think works best. Play around with it a bit.


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# 3 21-07-2008 , 11:24 AM
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thanks alot i'll try and get back to you if i have any problems

# 4 21-07-2008 , 11:38 AM
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When in doubt, delete history and freeze transformations.

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