Glass in max 7

[Sketchrender]

I am having some trouble getting glass to look right in max 7.

 

What material should i use to get the right effect of glass i presume it is a raytrace and then what ?

Can some body post a material from max file as sometimes it is the only way to see how things are made.

 

thanks

phil

[abicalho]

Hi Phillip,

 

Use an Architectural Material, choose any of the "Glass" templates and you're set!

[karl zacharias]

i've been staying away from the arch materials...i use a raytrace map, phong shader with a falloff in the reflect slot, then apply a raytrace map into the top slot of the falloff with frensel falloff override ior @ 1.5, set the color of the diffuse to a greyish and the transparency to 65-75%, self illum to black...thats for exterior scenes

[ajvbochove]

the easiest thing to do.....

try the customize menu\

Custom UI and Default Switcher\

Initial Settings --> Design Viz (mental ray)\

 

a voila... glass is always in the first sampel slot of your material editor!

and it's a good one!

[DennisHolland]

Even more simple,

 

pick a raytrace material, specular -> 250, glossiness -> 85, falloff (fresnel) in the reflectionslot change the refl. to 75, index of refr. to 1.35 and transparency set to a level of your desire, I mostly set it to 85-90%.

 

Use these settings as a reference and play around a bit. Glass is a tricky material and is acting different in every other scene.

 

You'll end up having yourself a standard, clean and wholesome piece of glass. A suggestion would be to make the glasscolour deepdarkgreen...

 

Good luck,

 

Dennis

[jonesthesteam]

A glass mat always needs a good reflective environment, as with all reflections and refractions, it's what's around the object that counts