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Making clear and colored glass

Making clear and colored glass - V-Ray Tutorial

From the course: V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Essential Training

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Making clear and colored glass

This glass is one of a handful material types that we come in to contact with everyday. The chances that we will want our need to re-create it in some way for one of our scenes, well, it's probably quite high. What we need to do then is come and unhide first of all the object that we want to work with, the object we want to apply our glass material to. So let's come to the Layer Editor tab and we just want to come and unhide or make visible this glass layer. With the object in the scene, let's come up to the Window menu, let's come to Rendering Editors, and let's pull up the Hypershade window for ourselves, and if we just move this to the side, we can see our object once we create a new V-Ray material. Instantly, we can come into the Attribute Editor and rename this Clear_Glass_2. We select our object and then right- click the material in the work area and use the Assign Material to Selection option. Now, that material is applied and we can work with its parameters, of course, we need…

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