Peter van der Elst Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 Hello, I'm looking for a glass material/texture for architectural renderings, the glass that comes with VW doesn't really suit my needs, are there simple ways to create a nice looking glass facade. I'm using VW 10.5. Thanks Quote Link to comment
MikeN Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 Ditto....just play around with the settings and you'll find something you'll like. Maybe this is something that Nemetschek could look into; numeric values associated with the slide bars on the texture edit window. It would be nice to be able to share specific transparancy and reflectivity values with colleagues in these particular situations. Quote Link to comment
Peter van der Elst Posted February 12, 2004 Author Share Posted February 12, 2004 Thanks for the quick replies, indeed a numeric value would be great, but with some experimenting (and some tips from the forum ) I think I would be able to get some nice glass texture. Quote Link to comment
Kaare Baekgaard Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 It really pays off to experiment for a few hours with Renderworks texture dialogue. With a little endeavour you can do things, that the program was never supposed to do. I have had success with the following procedure: 1. Make a new texture. 2. Set the 'Reflectivity' to 'Glass Reflextivity'. (this makes the texture transparent without using the 'Transparency' tab) Turn the transmission and refraction somewhat down. 3. Make an image file with a diagonal blueish gradient (or whatever effect you want). 4. Open the 'Transparency' tab and use the import the image as an 'Image Transparency* map. This you are not supposed to do, so the texture preview will look quite psychedelic. But when you render it with Final Quality Renderworks, it will make a very nice fake reflection - together with the 'real' ones to make it look more glasslike. Good luck. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Peter, You can also try using the Mirror reflectivity. Just turn the setting down on it. That tends to give a nice shiny reflective surface as well. Quote Link to comment
Peter van der Elst Posted February 23, 2004 Author Share Posted February 23, 2004 Thanks to you all! With some experimenting I found a glass that suits my needs. Quote Link to comment
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