Lighting glass....help please.

[TARZAN]

how scene do u wanna make?

the glass?

[Deathcricket]

Oh god, Tarzan is helping you good luck :)

Well I'm a newb in 3ds but pretty sure I can get you started. First make a lathe object. I think lofts look better for glass, but this will at least get you started. Here is info

http://www.cglearn.com/tutorials/max3/03_lathe_martini.html

Then you have to put a glass material on it. I would just use the standard glass material that comes with max. It even has 5 or so different shades to work with.

Now rendering is the tricky part. Just to get you started put a skylight for global lighting then change the default lighting renderer to something other than the default. Make sure you put the "bounces" setting to 1 or 2 to maximize "that real glass look". The best glass materials are found in the Brazil renderer though. Check out

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

That should at least help you get going. Check out the post above by VisualBoo with a billion tutorials in it for futher specific information. I apologize if that is to basic and you were looking for something more specific, but your post leads me to believe otherwise.

-Deathcricket-

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