Playing with glass

[gustavobenites]

Hi all!!!

I was playing with glass brick







The glass is a simple Vray-material

GLASS MATERIAL

BASICS



DIFFUSE



REFLECT



INTERPOLATIONS



EXTERNAL FACES



INTERNAL FACES MATERIAL (the same glass with a bump map)



INTERNAL FACES



FINAL RENDER



TESTING OTHER MAPS









GLASS IN SCENE



OTHER IoR

GLASS 1,52
CRISTAL 1,65
SAFIRA 1,77

hugs,
gustavo benites

[jujubee]

Wow that is great. Thanks for sharing!

[losbellos]

>jujubee, your avatar is so funny that I cant get used to it.
I laugh every day when I see it <

[jujubee]

losbellos - my avatar cat is not funny so please do not laugh at her - she is very serious about learning vray...

[Dynedain]

Here's my glass block, done as a low-poly solution, its meant to just be a texture on a box, one box per block:



And here's a sample scene that uses it:

[travistlo]

great job guys, looks good, both of them!

[Da_elf]

Dynedain care to share your settings? the low poly solution sounds nice

[Dynedain]

No problem, it's pretty simple (sorry but I'm having issues creating screenshots- stupid keyboard)

Glossiness on Reflect and Refract is both set to 1.0, IOR is 1.6
Exit color for refract is a dark green, about 0:60:52
In the reflet and refract slots I have this map:

In the diffuse slot I have a mask, the mask map is the same image, and the underlying map is just a procedural noise

In the displacement slot I've dropped this image:


And dropped a vray displacement modifier on the block
And I've setup a couple UVW maps to handle the mapping properly

ehh...what the hell, here's the sample file...you'll probably have to fix the paths to make it work right.

Glass Block Scene file

Just a note though, my box is a little wierd in terms of proportions because the designer I had to do this for was specifying a thin profile glass block.

Oh, and the scene was originally 1.09, but now is 1.46 (on max7) so there are probably optimzations that can be done.

[Da_elf]

sweet.

[gustavobenites]

Great Solution Dynedain!!!

[jedisalf]

thanks both for sharing!

[Nenad]

Great!

[Da_elf]

gustavobenites what do you use inbetween the blocks?

[taboo]

hi gustavobenites,
i dont understand the reason to imterpolate the refraction since your glossiness 1.0 under refraction. Can you explain that.


And also... if you guys like limecat... check this out.
http://etudiant.epitech.net/~bret_a/limecat/

[DaForce]

Excellent glass there guys!!

gustavobenites:
How is the glass brick itself made? Is it a simple.i.e. A box with the sides extruded twice? and internal face created?