this has worked for me before Exactly as people are saying. However, it has also failed for me Exactly how you're saying as well. I'm not exactly sure the problem. Sometimes I just recreate the material completely starting from new. Usually these types of problems are from using an older material in a new scene. Sometimes just recreating it solves the problem.
I still do gloss layers that way. Simply an opaque base material, then a material with white refraction right on top of it. If it is making the whole object transparent then something is indeed incorrect.
As vlado said about tracing refraction though...it's not a bad idea. What happens if you turn tracing refraction off on the Base layer though. You don't want to see through that object. Is the refraction still linked?
I still do gloss layers that way. Simply an opaque base material, then a material with white refraction right on top of it. If it is making the whole object transparent then something is indeed incorrect.
As vlado said about tracing refraction though...it's not a bad idea. What happens if you turn tracing refraction off on the Base layer though. You don't want to see through that object. Is the refraction still linked?
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