Hi all, At the office a guy that comes from using mental ray told me that glass in vray never looks real, as opposed to mental ray. And I tried to defend vray but I think he’s right. I don’t think it’s a vray’s problem, but that I couldn’t get to the “perfect” (biased) settings to replicate reali…

This is weird. GLASS is one of simplest materials in CGI. There is just NOTHING to it. Its transparency + reflection + in some cases density of glass if there are different - but that’s rarery used. Other render engines DONT have dedicated glass. They just have preset. (I mean MR)

To be fair there are things like cutoff threshold, max reflection/refraction depth and such that affect the outcome. If the thread is a waste of time, why not simply skip it and move on?

Well, I’m not sure this thread is SO un-usefull TBH, I might be the devil’s advocate here because it seems that everyone is against Lupaz, but he does have some good points. * For the library, he makes a point and it’s a fact : Vray doesn’t have one, now to know if Vray wants to make one or not, t…

I have to add this. DOF No one is talking about the dof. In my opinion it’s really important part of realistic glass. Glass is that way unique material, that you can see 3 different depths at the same surface. And because glass isn’t anything else than reflection, refraction and edges, you have to…

[image] Serious bug : GI animation + object hidden Dof wont help you much if all you can see in glass is reflection of IBL which is at constant distance. Yep, like I said, hdr environment isn’t enough. But in any other case it’s the only way to make glass looking real. Just my opinion.

Lupaz opened my eyes…no more settings…We want a new vray glass shader with a simple way to get nice looking glass with options like -Maxwell glass effect. -an user friendly calibrater… starting in cheap all the way to expensive or fancy…no more colors,IOR, fresnel,etc ( very useless by the way) -…

Another handy option… Pimp my glass… Always On by default please

[image] Proper Category Sorting for Vray Materials and Maps Another handy option… Pimp my glass… Always On by default please Hahahhahahahahahah omg LOL

Real looking glass (yes, again)

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Dariusz_Makowski_Dadal November 1, 2013, 10:52am 82

Dof wont help you much if all you can see in glass is reflection of IBL which is at constant distance.

Mix 32 and 16 bit render elements in exr

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