I can´t find a solution for rendering a correct alpha channel with my glass material. I´ve set everything according to threads in this forum and tried several things but still VRay does not render correctly. As you can see in the rendering, there are windows on the back side of the house. The front…

What is your glass material? Does it have the “affect alpha” checkbox? Best regards, Vlado

Please see material screenshot above. Its the vray material with refraction glossy 1.0 (as mentioned in other threads and vray help) and affect alpha checked…

does enabling fresnel for the reflections make a difference?

No, Fresnel on / off makes no difference. It seems that irradiance map is rendering the alpha channel correctly, but not light cache and not the final render pass. any more ideas ? I´ve read that SP3 might solve this problem. Any chance to get access to the beta version ?

[image] 5 000 000 000 000 polygons 2nd RErender’s suggestion.. I´ve also tried this, but the result is an alpha channel with wrong geometry in it. So this also does not work…

Sp3 resolves the alpha problem with blurry refractions. In your case it shouldn’t make any difference, imo.

yep, it should be working from what i can see. try taking off interpolation on the refraction, theres no need for it anyway if the glossiness of the refractions is at 1.0

Thanks, I see. But what might be the problem then ? I don´t see why this isn´t working …

Can you post a scene? Even just a stripped down one with the glass, walls, and a ceiling…

Glass alpha problem - no solution ?

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I´ve also tried this, but the result is an alpha channel with wrong
geometry in it. So this also does not work…

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