Glass guidance needed

[Mario Pende]

Hello!

I have this exterior project coming soon, and decided to give MW a shot.

I have lots of windows and balcony doors in the scene, so I was wondering if the method I used so far for glass modeling, also applies to MW.

What I have are 2 meshes, one facing out and one towards the room.

Will this work, or I have to do something other to get nice looking glass in MW?

Thanx

 

[Devin Johnston]

Your glass has to have thickness it can't be just a plane. You say your using meshes I sounds like you have two planes in which case it might work, Maxwell really need for there to be a thickness between the front and back of the glass in order to simulate glass properly.

[Mario Pende]

But then I would have overlaping surfaces, because the glass "thickness" plane would overlap with door surface.

 

p.s. open the picture I attached, youll see more clearly highlited glass planes

[Devin Johnston]

The easiest way to see if it's going to work is to put a glass material on it and render.

[Mario Pende]

Yeah, but lets not forget how fast would that be :D

 

Any recomemndation on the glass material from the MW material site?

[calpolyarc]

Maxwell doesn't mind overlapping geometry. I don't know if using 2 planes will give you desireable results, best way to tell as Maxer stated above is to just try it. Render one image with the glass as 2 planes and then another with glass as one plane with thickness... compare which one looks better as well as how long they each took.

 

As for a glass material the built in mxm wizard can create glass and/or AGS. If you have a specific problem with the glass mat let me know.