Frosted glass

Vantage Vantage :: Wishlist
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Is there a way of importing frosted or opaque glass? I’ve tried several materials including the frosted glass in V-ray 5.0 asset browser. If not, any work-a rounds?
Thanks, Dave

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Hi Dave,

Currently refraction glossiness is not supported in Chaos Vantage but it’s on our TO DO list.

As a sort of a workaround you could try the following:

  • Create a duplicate of the glass you want to be frosted;
  • Modify the geometry so that you assign a different ID to the back face of the glass geometry (e.g. ID 2 to the back face and ID 1 to all other faces)
  • Create a MtlMulti and assign the original frosted glass in slot 1 and the duplicate to slot 2 for ID 2 and assign the Multi material to the glass geometry;
  • Add a noise bitmap texture in the bump slot of the duplicate mtl.
  • Set the tiling to something very high e.g. 50-100;
  • Now you can control the glossiness by adjusting the bump strength.

Here is a link to a demo video showing the workaround:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1RVbwbmhaGSx5I353mrlBViY14a9\_eK9-

Best regards,
Alexander

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Thanks Alexander - really appreciate the tip.