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Making colored and frosted glass

Making colored and frosted glass

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Making colored and frosted glass

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- Having seen how we can use the V-Ray Power Shader to create a straightforward glass material, we want to move our scene forward a little, and take a look at how we would go about adding some complexity by creating both colored and frosted glass variations. Well, one thing that we all certainly won't want to do at this morning time is reinvent the proverbial wheel, as it were, and start a new glass material from scratch. Why should we, when we already have a perfectly good jumping-off point, in the glass material that we've already created. In the Material Editor, then, I'm just going to hold down my shift key, as I left mouse click and drag on the existing champagne glass material, in order to create a perfect duplicate of it. The first alteration I will want to make, is to rename it, and as this is going to be applied to the aptly-named blue glass vase geometry in our scene, Blue_Glass_Vase seems like a perfectly good name for it. Finally, let's go ahead and apply the material to…

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