architectural glass, slightly NPR

[Ernest Burden]

I make glass differently than most of you. I'm less concerned with perfect realism than an artistic impression. In some applications I pump up the colored effects that this material only hints at. I also take glass towards being a little brighter than reality. This helps it 'feel' right more than look exactly like a photo of a glass object.

When making glass railings for example, you really don't want the glass to be too transparent, you want it to feel a little solid so viewers know something is there at the edge of the balcony. Therefor, you go slightly lighter or darker. I choose lighter, though reality would suggest darker due to less than 100% transmission of light through the glass.

This material is somewhat slow to raytrace. When used as curtainwall vision glass it would be best to exclude glass from GI and turn off shadow casting (though i did end up beating the shadow problem I was having with this material (described in another thread)).

For the box-o-panes image I turned off the text on the scene box because they were distracting as reflections.


http://oreally.com/temp2/vray-mat-glass-vision-01.jpg http://oreally.com/temp2/vray-mat-glass-vision-01B.jpg

The panes files, without the test-scene maps:
http://oreally.com/temp2/Test_Mat_Vray_GLS-vision-01B.c4d

Enjoy, suggestions welcome.

[Ernest Burden]

From the other thread:
Here is an animated test. I added a few objects to be reflected, a few simple sheets of glass as you would have in a building, etc. plus a figure for scale. This is rendered without GI. Even so, it took a while with all the raytracing going on. To get a sense of how the glass material reacts to various conditions, just scrub the timeline around. It's not much on the animation side.


http://oreally.com/temp2/glass-test-02.mov

[Damsel]

Thank you Ernest, it looks interesting and I'm anxious to try it in a scene.

[Rich_Art]

Thanks.. :)

Peace,
Rich_Art. :wink:

[davin]

thx alot.
exactly what i was looking for.

[Cian]

Hi Ernest.
Your glass looks great but I can download it.
I end up with a load of text.

Cian.


http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/5570/picture3eb6.png

[Tong]

http://www.zshare.net/download/6212999ab9ba41/

[ichi.one]

thanks for sharing this Mr Burden, very usefull

Hi Ernest.
Your glass looks great but I can download it.
I end up with a load of text.

Cian.


on Mac: hold Control key, mouse-click the link,
then select 'Download Linked File As'

or hold Alt key, mouse-click the link,
the file will be saved on your desktop

should work

[Cian]

Cheers Tong & ichi.one.:wink:
I have it now.

Cian.

[nycL45]

Very nice glass, Ernest. In your flick, the refractions in the glass blocks and your closing figure could not be better. Thanks for the share.

Leonard

[sketchbook]

awesome thanks ernest!

[Triker]

Thanks a bunch. I'm struggling with glass on a current project and I'll give this a go.

[stefan]

nice looking glas material ernest thanks for sharing here:-)
cheers
stefan

[Stephane]

Thank you very much Ernest. It looks great! Given that this kind of glass is kind of a signature of yours I'd say that sharing it like this is very generous of you. :)

Cheers,
Stéphane

[zoppo]

T... is very generous of you. :)
Cheers,
Stéphane

yes it is! thanks! i'm having a hard time with glass too, so this is very welcome!

[Ernest Burden]

Thanks for the thanks, everyone, but I would rather hear whether the material is actually helping you out in your work.

There could easily be situations where it becomes a problem rather than a solution, so I'm interested to hear how it performs in real projects.

[STRAT]

i'll be using it in my next 'glass required' project and i'll report back :)

[Emre]

Absolutely gr8 thanks

[rene]

No suggestions. it just looks great, thanks for sharing.

[belushy]

very good solution

nice ONE

cheers belushy

[Rich_Art]

Second that.... :)

Peace,
Rich_Art. :wink: