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Questions tagged [glass]

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Is there a way to make a sphere made of equilateral triangles?

I was wondering is there a way to make something like this in Blender? The real challenge though would be to texture it properly, cause I want to make it look like every triangle has a different color glass. Looking like a mosaic. Any tips? Thank…
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Differences between Principled and Beckman Glass BSDF

Comparing Cycles renders of a glass bowl, I see a color shift and an angle shift when switching between Principled BSDF shader and Glass BSDF (Beckman) shader. Is anyone aware of other differences? Note: according to Is the Glass BSDF shader in…
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How to Make Glass Less Reflective?

So I am making my first interior scene and I have made a coffee table but am struggling to make it less reflective. It looks as though it's a mirror and I just want to know how can I make it more transparent.
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Adding smudges/fingerprints to a glass material

I have a project here that uses a lot of glass panels and to bump up the realism, I added fingerprint textures. However, I still don't know how to add or combine them. I got mud instead of fingerprints on my glass panels :( I'm also planning to…
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Transparent Glass is not transparent in material preview

I'm new to Blender and this as for sure asked before, but I couldn't find someone how had the exact same problem as me. This is my material: This is how it looks when I set the viewport to rendered (with Cycles): And this is how it look when I set…
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Strange sphere in my glass surfaces?

I'm using Glass nodes from Blender Gurus tutorial but for some reason I get this strange sphere in all my glass surfaces. If I Enable Backface Culling in material settings, the sphere disappears from Viewport reflections but still shows in final…
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Is glass in Cycles just broken or am I doing something wrong

OK So I've been trying to make a simple scene of my room as a bit of practice but I've run into trouble while doing the windows. Whenever I place glass in them it just doesn't act right, to the point that even leaving the widow "open" gives a better…
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Why is my cube looking like this with the glass material?

I'm new at blender and am trying to make the cube look like glass. I'm not sure how to not make it look like a mirror and have this weird texture reflection. The monkey is a better picture with what is going on. It's leaving a reflection of a…
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Glass pane not acting the way it should

Hello guys, thanks for clicking this post, I am trying to make a basic cableway but unfortunately I got stuck at one point. I was trying to put there windows but the glass panes don´t seem to work properly. They are not solid, just regular planes…
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Glass spherical lamp - How to create correct light diffusion inside the glass

I am trying to render a suspended lamp made of spherical glass with led source inside. Here is my reference image: I have modeled a very simple object made by 3 elements: - Light source: An hemisphere with emission material, like is in real world…
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Text and shape inside glass

I try to create a LED glass and there are texts and shapes inside it. I want the text look like this. And here is my rendering. This isn't what I want. How can I fix it?
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Portion of glass appears opaque in render

I'm new on this site. My problem is with a glass window. The top portion of the window is opaque (see ) The glass is a standard setup (Glass BSDF+Transparent BDSF to Mix Shader to Material Output). There's a light (sun) aimed at an angle directed at…
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I am trying to get this glass to show the colored mesh behind it, it wont work, i have version 2.90

]1 Am trying to render this glass in blender, it wont show what,s behind it. its not a background, it is a colored mesh
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Couldn't get the right coffee color and the thickness of glass cup

I was trying to follow the coffee cup tutorial by Blender Guru on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdWUjEMzDhg&t=235s However, I have two major problems with my own project: 1， I couldn't get the right coffee color changing the "Color" and "Density"…
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I am making glass for a phone camera, making lens invisible

I'm making a phone animation, but when I make the glass, the lens, under the glass, which is made out of the same material disappears. Image--->
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