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iwto2000
02-27-2007, 02:24 AM
Hello. I am having some trouble with the dielectric material cooperating with my geometry. I modeled a blender and wanted to shade the glass part of it with a dielectic material. The problem is that when I render the image, it is really dark. It looks like the depth for relfection/refraction is not high enough, but I have both of those maxed out. I made the geometry with polys. What I did was shaped the outside layer, then I selected all the faces and extruded them and then scaled them down and shifted them into position. Here is the result:

http://dxhut.xepher.net/rendering/help.jpg
o-v
02-27-2007, 04:04 PM
which direction do the normals aim?
lemonyfresh
02-27-2007, 10:25 PM
I don't think its your geometry, although I can't imagine why you are not using nurbs for this particular peice of geometry. You probably need to turn your Col up in value.
faultymoose
02-27-2007, 11:51 PM
If you look closely at your render you can see that the floor is refracting through the surface correctly, but the walls aren't - they're just black. Not sure how to fix this, I don't have much MR experience.
bgawboy
03-01-2007, 03:54 PM
Maybe somehow the wall got its Visible in refractions flag turned off.
What is the material on the wall?
WolfMcfly
03-05-2007, 08:02 PM
your blender is reflecting your environment..

did you check it?? if your environment is black, the reflection in your blender will be black..

change that color, or use some hdr..
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