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daChamp · 15-08-2003, 11:24 PM

Haven't tried it, but would selecting white as the colour and turning up the transparency give me realistic glass ?

Do I have to ray trace to get glass rendered ?

Thanks.

strarup · 15-08-2003, 11:30 PM

Hi daChamp,

ckyuk has some info about it, in this thread... down at the bottom of page 1... -->
http://forums.simplymaya.com/showthr...&threadid=7209

regards

Strarup

Dann · 16-08-2003, 12:09 AM

Yeah, that's about right.

Maya comes with a whole host of glass shaders in the library. They are often a good place to start, and then tweak from there.

daChamp · 23-08-2003, 11:35 AM

Why does the sphere look like glass and the plane & cube dosent ?

I want to make a window with realistic glass.

How do I do that ?

Thanks.

Dann · 25-08-2003, 08:13 AM

Flat Planes are notoriously harder to give good reflection maps to. Without a curviture on the surface, the reflection ends up assinging the same value to the entire plane.

I would recommend adding a very subtle bump map to the plane. Very subtle.

15-08-2003, 11:24 PM	#1
daChamp Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	How do you make realistic glass? Haven't tried it, but would selecting white as the colour and turning up the transparency give me realistic glass ? Do I have to ray trace to get glass rendered ? Thanks. __________________ da Champ

15-08-2003, 11:30 PM	#2
strarup Subscriber Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 338 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hi daChamp, ckyuk has some info about it, in this thread... down at the bottom of page 1... --> http://forums.simplymaya.com/showthr...&threadid=7209 regards Strarup __________________ ------------------------------------------------ Alex V. U. Strarup One mistake can ruin it all...

23-08-2003, 11:35 AM	#4
daChamp Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Making Glass Why does the sphere look like glass and the plane & cube dosent ? I want to make a window with realistic glass. How do I do that ? Thanks. Attached Thumbnails __________________ da Champ

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Dann Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 695 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Yeah, that's about right. Maya comes with a whole host of glass shaders in the library. They are often a good place to start, and then tweak from there.

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Dann Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 695 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Flat Planes are notoriously harder to give good reflection maps to. Without a curviture on the surface, the reflection ends up assinging the same value to the entire plane. I would recommend adding a very subtle bump map to the plane. Very subtle.