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MellyMeow
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10 months ago
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True Glass Texture for Objects (other than planes)

Hello! Does anyone have any suggestions for applying a true, shiny glass-like texture with transparency to an object ( other than a plane) (e.g., a real-looking glass fish bowl)? I can get glass plan...
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    MellyMeow
    10 months ago

    I solved the problem and was able to get my glass objects in. 🙂 For anyone who encounters this issue when using a textured object, you need to save the object material as "_transparent" in Blender, and then save the image file as "_BR.png" AND "_MESA.png" in order for the transparency to work. 

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Kayrrie
MHCP Partner
10 months ago

When you use solidify, it’s like color on top of color so it becomes more opaque (was trying it today actually). But yes you can apply glass textures to other items. Here’s some examples. You want the br opacity to be low. The lower the shiner. And you want the MESA file to be low opacity too (to makes it clearer). But be careful about using the solidify modifier when using like glass bottles or just glass enclosed items. 

 

 

 

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    MellyMeow
    MHCP Member
    10 months ago

    Thanks! Are you using Blender or another program (Substance Painter, etc.) for texturing?

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      Kayrrie
      MHCP Partner
      10 months ago

      My pleasure! I'm using blender for modeling at the moment.  Been dabbling with Z-brush here and there on my ipad recently, and also starting to utilize Substance Painter now.  That Substance Painter is incredible for more custom style textures.  For the majority of my textures, I've been using Photoshop to set and prep them and to create trim sheets.  What are you mainly using?

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