clear glass

[Mike Pritchard]

:? can anybody help me create clear glass material for rendering Autocad 2004 solids please!

[architech]

Curious? :?
If it's supposed to be clear, why not just leave a void, so you can see thru the mullions & frame?

Let me know. :wink:

[architech]

I got your "private message" (pm) ....


Ok ... I hear ya' ... let me ask around.
But I doubt it. :roll:

But off the top of my head... to accomplish that kinda of effect .... :?
I would think you need to do "2" renderings.

"RENDERING ONE"
Render with no glass.
And save the image as a JPEG.

"RENDERING TWO"
Render with glass or water or polished metal to get the desired effect.
And save image as a JPEG.


Now hopefully both have the same "angle" and "perspective".
Crop out the window from "RENDERING 2"!!!
Now overlay that over the image from "RENDERING 1" ... And now play w/ the transparency property of "RENDERING 2" ....

The 2 images should yield the results you want.

The transparency effect can be done in AutoCAD or Photoshop or some other imaging software that has that capability.

Hope that helps guy. :lol:
I'll ask around here but I believe that's your best bet. Somewhat ... a lot of work but very effective if done right.

If you don't hear from me ... no other ideas .... :oops:

[architech]

Hey Mike,
Did my suggestion work for ya?
Or did ya' go another route?

[homecadd]

for transparency to work:
1) type RMAT or click the material library
2) click modify
3) pick trarsparency
4) set value of transparency

[Azadhel]

Yeah... I see where Mike was going. He wanted to render something like a bottle of water. With something in it, I reckon. I thought I had a solution, but what Architech said is probably right, right?

... did it work?