Preserved Topic: More glass (Page 1 of 1)

Still trying to perfect glass in Max. This is my latest:

glass pill in front of concrete wall

I'm not happy with the shadow, but I think the faked caustic worked well.

Yah, I probably post to many material tests here. A blob in front of a wall is great for tweaking the material, but I suppose I should make more real scenes to post

Same settings as in your other post?

No, this one is an experiment in 'cheats'. Faked caustic, faked reflection, faked shadow, etc. The transparency map is the same, though. Gotta use a fresnal falloff map for convincing transparency.

The shadow was created in Photoshop from a quick render of a black shadow on a white surface. I put the shadow directly on the concrete texture (multiply mode), then applied the texture map to the wall. It's kind of like the shadow is 'painted' on the wall. I made it by blurring in a dark rim at the edges, but keeping the center at a fairly low opacity. I tinted the whole thing blue with a Curves adjustment layer.

The caustic is a bluish light just in front of the wall.

The reflection is a stock reflection map that I have in my library.

The refraction and fresnal transparency are 'real' raytraced effects.

Das, you're not my hero anymore. :sniff sniff:

Yet another shining example of using 3D, a paint prog, and some fore-thought with the different renders.

Kudos.

Yeah, for a long time I thought you had to have the best renderer available for a good image. The more books I read, the more I learn that you can use just about any package if you 'cheat' with Photoshop, Painter, etc.

Seems the pros who use the super-duper software often don't even use the Radiosity and Caustics and such built into the software. Too slow. They cheat to make deadlines