hi all!
when i render glas with a thickness like a glas plate for a table, i can not achieve the look i want.
f.e. the egdes of the glas and the faces on the small side of the glas are supposed to be much darker than the upper and lower faces..
a glas plate 1x1X0.02 m the 0.02m part should be totaly non transparent.
i tried some settings with vray, but can not get it to work..
regards
s.wolf
Post an image stephan
and your settings
Natty
Usualy the real glass with 2cm thickess is frosted in those faces, did you already try?
I think it should do the trick
Gonçalo
i would love to but yahoos photo album is down…
regards
s.wolf
do you mean i have to put a other material on that faces?
i tried to avoid that..
regards
s.wolf
Use Psy’s FTP instead:
here’s the ftp info and plz make a folder of your username.
Domain: ftp.3dmaxedout.com
Username: vray@3dmaxedout.com
Pasword: govray
look at http://vray.3dmaxedout.com/ for the file after its uploaded.
tried..
but it does not accept the pasword..
what is wrong?
regards
s.wolf
Try again with a different FTP client, it works from here..
may be some problems with our firwall. admin is at home of course..
anyway.. is it so hard to figure out the problem with the glas without images?
regards
s.wolf
So what are your glass settings?
Gonçalo
just one of the glas materials from the vray matlib..
clear glas f.e.
applied to a box 1x1x0.02m
render…
regards
s.wolf
Man this doesnt help, I cant guess what is your problem…
Gonçalo
sorry…
can´t upload a picture, yahoo is down..
does anybody know how to upload images to the internet?
regards
s.wolf
hope this works…
regards
s.wolf
Try to add a fog color like RGB 160,195,177 and increase the multiplier to 0.5
Gonçalo
works perfect man!
thx a lot.
btw. it onlay works if ior i not 1,0.
i always set it to 1,0 to save rendertime…
regards
s.wolf
The fact that glass is darker in those thin sides IS because of refraction. All glass is colored, usually greenish a very little bit. This is where the fog color gets in. The thicker the object, the darker it’s color. So when you have a very thin piece of glass, you can look through it easily (it looks as if it’s not colored). But when you look at it straight on the edges, it’s actually very thick (from that point of view) so it get’s dark.
Now if you look at it from a normal angle, the ray that goes into the thin side is refracted inside the glass, and comes out on the other side, causing a very dark color on your edge.
or something like that 
flipside
flipside,
That’s the best explanation of glass refraction I’ve ever heard. Nice and simple. Good stuff!!
Tony