glass texture with refraction

[HapZungLam]

do you have samples of what you want to make?

[Ian Jones]

I think that in general, crystal balls or movies with them make the image inside distorted like a fish-eye lens. If you have some compositing software it should be capable of this. Depends if your camera is locked-down or not.

In 3D you could maybe make a second sphere slightly larger than the cyrstal ball with flipped normals and apply a texture to the inside. You may also want to make it constantly face the camera, with a look-at type of controller or script. Hey, its just an idea.

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