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Old July 1st, 2009   #1 (permalink)
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Default Solar Reflective Glass

Hello everyone,

Well i was making a solar reflective glass for one of my projects. I could see that there is only reflection that is needed.. But, not able to get the right results.
Does any one know how to make a solar reflective glass??
I am working in 3ds max and vray.


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Default Re: Solar Reflective Glass

Perhaps you could post an example image from google as well as some details on what software and renderer you are using?
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I could be sounding so stupid without the information. well I am making a building, which is kind of an ofiice building. So i want the glass to be more reflective.

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Default Re: Solar Reflective Glass

Or may be like this.....
some thing that is blue/green in colour and is more reflective. as i have only 4gb of ram and cant manage to show the interior...
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And i am using MAX and VRAY...

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I think the term you might be looking for is tinted glass. You can probably either use the fog setting in your vray material to set it or just play around with your refraction settings.

To have a mininum level of reflection, instead of just ticking fresnel reflections in your vray material, put a falloff map in the reflection map and replace the black slot with a grey which will make the glass always reflect at least something instead of being totally see-thru.

The colour of your glass is probably more dependant on what your glass is reflecting (eg. the sky in your scene)
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Thankyou James for your advice. It really did help me.Well can you tell me if I should upgrade my pc to 8gig ram.??
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If its crashing at render time because you're running out of free RAM, then yes.
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Hmmm........Well not crashing exactly. But what i am wondering is that if i make an exterior and then i put a tinted glass on it and take a closeup shot of the building then i would have to show something in the interior. so it would increase the mesh and the viewport navigation would slow down, but while rendering, it would work perfectly......
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Your viewport navigation performance is based purely on your Graphics card installed.
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Well i have Nvdiia GEForce 9500GT, 1 gig of graphics card...do i need more??
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