Glass lighting

Skatoony · Post by **Skatoony** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:58 pm

Well I'm still attempting to get the hang of using Indigo, but ran into a rather bothersome problem. When lighting a scene with a sun light in Blender, I find anything that is glass (specular, transparent and 1.52 IOR) is far duller than the plane (which uses a phong material, 0.8 RGB and 1.5 IOR).

Here's a sample of what I'm trying to do recently (after 7 hours rendering): http://cosmic-dreams.net/im1178580339.png

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

mrCarnivore · Post by **mrCarnivore** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:08 pm

You have to use lower absorbtion values. Then the glass will become more translucent and therefore less dark.

Skatoony · Post by **Skatoony** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:11 pm

Will try soon - Indigo just caused my first ever blue screen under Vista (PAGE_FAULT_IN-NON_PAGED_AREA) so I need to figure out where I got to

Skatoony · Post by **Skatoony** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:28 pm

Sorry for double post - lowered the absorbtion values and they're much brighter than before. Cheers!

mrCarnivore · Post by **mrCarnivore** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:34 pm

No problem mate.

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:13 am

more than likely you've got a bad stick of memory btw

Glass lighting

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