Transparency problem.Please Help

[LFShade]

Right now it looks like you have some objects encased in a solid block of acrylic. Modeling the box so that it is hollowed out (like it really would be) will go a long way toward getting the right look.

RH

[Pixelmaestro]

There is a description in the Material Editor, Material and Maps section with a chart of numbers for different natural materials.

[mariot]

sorry, my english is not so god. what does "hollowed out " means ?

[Is-boset]

Hey Mariot for my your plastic appereance looks for me fine y can see trough them. i don't understand your issue.

so i don't know whats means "hollowed out".

[mouj]

Howdy !

'hollowed out" would mean that the box needs to be hollow, it can't just be a plain box and that's it, it has to be hollow, to be able to contain something - like it would be in "real world".
If you don't make it hollow, it'll always look as if the object is rather trapped inside a closed box.

does that make sense ?

mouj

[mariot]

Oh.. i've got it now. U mean, like to have a hole in it right ? Well it does. I've made another box, a little smaller and longer, and i've done a boolean>substract, so the box is empty, like in the real world ;)

thanks. but my problem really was about the material, cos' it doesn't has consistence. it just looks fake. So i think is a matter of lights or of ambient. Even if, i've rendered in brazil, wiht light sky on...so....

maybe some HDRI would help. I always had that problem, but only with ice, glass, and water. I would really apreciate some realy good tutorial on this type of materials.

[EricChadwick]

I think you need something for the box to reflect. It is shiny plastic? Reflections go a long way towards making shiny materials believable.

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/metal_and_refs/metal_and_refs.htm

[Schnupps]

Some reflection (not 100%) should be on that material (via HDRI or just a normal map). 0% opacityis not what you have in real world with plastic. And don´t forget to tune speclular and glosiness, you´ll still see it even with zero opacity.

And you might want to try out the Architectural Glass script (not just for glass), which you can get from http://www.scriptspot.com/

Schnupps

[bibigeko]

first escuze-me for my poor english..so sorry.. :(
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it's not very the same subject but..

and about the transludity?

I mean: I try lot of way to find who make a material like human skin on hand or material for candle.

I try to learn the lesson of neil blevin about that, but i don't find the real technical solution to have something nice.

Brazil 1 give you an avanced material, and i hear that i can create this type of specyfic shader with that, but without a very good result!

can you help me about?

[FabioMSilva]

make it a 2-sided material, maybe it will help

[Is-boset]

mariot don't forget show us your result when you done it

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