line-weight Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Here are some test renderings for quite a complicated model. You can see that there is a bunch of stuff that I am rendering as if it's glass - the idea being that the parts that I've highlighted in a kind of beige colour are visible through it. In the top image, I've used the "glass frosted 01 RT" default texture. It sort of looks how I want it, but I'd like to reduce the very dark portions that mostly appear along edges, but also on some angled faces. What's the setting that I should be fiddling with to reduce this? Are they reflections? If so, I can't work out what they are reflecting, because I've got a pure white background. The bottom image is the same model but using "plastic transparent polythene RT" instead. This has no dark edges, and makes the highlighted elements more visible, but I don't like the look of it so much - it doesn't really look like a real material. So I guess I'm aiming for something that is in between these two materials. Any tips? Quote Link to comment
Hans-Olav Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Hi Nice pictures! I like the idea I would recommend making a copy of the texture and start playing with the transparency and color properties of the textures. Hopefully you find something that gives you the effect you are after Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 Thanks! Yes, I have tried playing with these settings a bit, but without full understanding of what they each do. I was hoping someone might be able to point me to the specific things that will affect what I'm trying to change ... otherwise it is quite a long and tedious process of trial and error. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted June 10, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 10, 2020 Absorption distance is the setting that gives darker effects on glass when it's viewed from different angles. Have a look at that setting. If you change it to zero you may be able to remove the effect you're seeing on the fillets. Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Tamsin Slatter said: Absorption distance is the setting that gives darker effects on glass when it's viewed from different angles. Have a look at that setting. If you change it to zero you may be able to remove the effect you're seeing on the fillets. Thanks. It's already set to zero on that texture (the top one of my images), though. Quote Link to comment
Kevin Allen Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Maybe change to a middle gray solid color? Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 19 hours ago, Kevin Allen said: Maybe change to a middle gray solid color? I'm not sure which setting you mean? Quote Link to comment
Kevin Allen Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 6 hours ago, line-weight said: I'm not sure which setting you mean? The Color Shader Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 2 hours ago, Kevin Allen said: The Color Shader Trying that doesn't seem to make much difference - you may have misunderstood what I'm trying to reduce, which is the dark grey/black you can see along the 'edges' and facets of some the glassy elements. Here I have highlighted a couple of examples: Quote Link to comment
Kevin Allen Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 you might need the right or bounces. If I am seeing correctly, you might be expecting the light to travel through the glass like it might in real life, but it won't. At least not with existing tech. I Sometimes extract a 3D poly from those edges and apply a glow texture. Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 After extensive fiddling around, I realised it's the refraction setting in the glass transparency shader that affects this. Turning it down to only slightly over 1 has gotten me a little closer to what I want. 2 Quote Link to comment
Popular Post line-weight Posted June 16, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2020 Here's how it ended up looking in the final version (so far) 6 Quote Link to comment
Pastel Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 19 hours ago, line-weight said: Here's how it ended up looking in the final version (so far) Wow, congrats. You are really nailing it. May I ask what lighting settings and materials you are using in the end? (Both for the transparent part and for the volumes with balsa wood) I'd love to try making renders like that. Quote Link to comment
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