Material with a Gradient from Clear to Opaque

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HI,
just try to setup a material witha a gradient from clear/glas to opaque.
i was trying to use the fresnel in the transparent channel, but this may work, but render time explodes to a maximum.
does anyone have a good idea?

[Tong]

place your material please

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now its rendering normal... dont know was happening that the rendertimes explode.
still have problems with the gradient from bottom to top... :(

[Tong]

place your material please

or send it to gantonr@gmail.com

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http://rapidshare.com/files/87260628/gradient_glass.c4d.html

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anyone found already a solution?

[Tong]

i`m fail to repeat the problem

on mine pc your material with bottom to top renders fine
you made interesting material indeed. :oops:

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http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/4412/44210636oi1.jpg

[mattwnuk]

Tong: could you post your scene file? it's lit very well. thanks in advance :)

[Tong]

http://forum.vrayforc4d.com/viewtopic.php?t=1071

http://www.c4dcafe.com/temp/StudioLighting_Rich_Art.rar

[Rich_Art]

Thanks tong. :wink:

Peace,
Rich_Art. :wink:

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the links don't work :/

[Rich_Art]

The Cafe is down... So that is why the link does not work at the moment.

Peace,
Rich_Art. :wink:

[Tong]

Thanks Rich_art. :wink:

Peace,
Tong. :wink:

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Ahh .. OK *Wait* :)

[Tong]

http://rapidshare.com/files/83307058/StudioLighting_Rich_Art_Modified_by_fubiano_than_c 4-_hf.zip.html

http://www.fubiano.com/razno/StudioLighting_Rich_Art_Modified_by_fubiano.rar

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thanks, yes the material is indeed nice... but...
can some please help me out ... really need a material with this gradient from transparent to opaque...


example: box out of perspex/glas which is transparent at the bottom and becomes through a gradient into an opaque surface at the top.

really need help

thanks

[darianr]

Can you not just use a gradient? And then set the mapping to flat and change the texture size to the size of the object.

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well the problem is that i have to use the 3dGradient which works fine...
nice gradient from left to right... attched the material and image.
but dont get from bottom to top?
cant i just turn the texture by 90 degrees?.. maybe to much guniess yesterday and hangover...


GRADIENT MATERIAL
http://rapidshare.com/files/88331981/GRADIENT.c4d.html

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3185/99475862jh7.jpg

[Rich_Art]

For those who want to download the Light Setup,
http://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=350

The cafe is back online now.. :D

Peace,
Rich_Art. :wink:

[mattwnuk]

Thank's a lot Tong :)

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well happy to hear, that all like this material, but can someone help me with the gradient? i have this 3Dgradient and even when i rotate this texture it stays the same...

[stefan]

try using a 2d gradient.

for all for this kind of materials:
just place the gradient or fresnel(or any texture) in diffuse tranparency.
thats what it is for-to mix solid to trsanparent.

second possibility is to use one or more materials and blend them via wieght map.

very cool effects are doable with this:-)

cheers
stefan