sorry, wrong choice of word - i meant metallic as in colour, grey... it should be brown.
i'm happy with the actual material properties.

link to first render, jpg i'm building a valve - it's a Mullard type QV05-25. ( photos of this valve ) what you see is the result of an evenings modelling (in blender), and (edit) rendered overnight. i still need to model the rest of the innards - mostly metallic constructions. a few questions thou...

the glass is perfectly colourless

yeah, i suppose so. i'm also wondering why my floor is so much darker. forgive me, i'm quite new to doing this kind of thing, but is there a known reason for that? in addition to the 3 coloured emitters in the rear compartment, there is also a (very very dim, white colour) overhead plane emitter abo...

this one kinda worked better:

it's just normal glass - IOR 1.5

there's nothing special about any of the objects or materials in the scene - just the way they are arranged and used. It's indigo, of course, that has done the "amazing" part.

so, i thought i'd recreate the fibre optic experiment posted somewhere here.. http://doug.uk.to/3d/fibres.jpg (343k jpg) and I notice that the red source is either much brighter than the others, or somehow works more efficiently? I did notice this problem on a test render, before I started this one,...

Hello all! Just wanted to show off my first few renders: http://doug.uk.to/3d/glassman.jpg http://doug.uk.to/3d/splatter.jpg http://doug.uk.to/3d/octo.jpg all modelled in blender, the first two pics are from the same anim using blenders fluid sim (yes, an exploding man :D ). and no, i haven't render...