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Creating realistic glass material in 3DS MAX

by Mike Nuts on Mar.19, 20 03, underTutorials

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic glass material and turn our chess pawn into a realistic glassobject. Key terms include reflection, refraction, opacity, and fall-off. This tutorial is aimed at the beginner, but since thereare several ways to create glass, it might be interesting for everyone els e as well. Although this tutorial is based o n 3DStudio Max, the sam e settings apply to m any other 3D products.

Note: Click on the thumbnail in each s tep for a larger screenshot that includes the viewports and the relevant portionof the user interface.

Step 1 Because this tutorial covers o nly how to create the glass m aterial you need to add anobject to your scene yourself. This can be anything from the simple pawn we use (download

the chess pawn here) to the sophisticated high detail models you create.

Step 2 Press the M key to open the Material Editor (or select Material Editor from theRenderingmenu) and rename the first material to Glass .

Drag the material to your o bject in the scene to ass ign it.

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Step 3Set theAmbient and Diffuse colo r of the material to black. And set the Specular Level to 275and Glossiness to 45.

Step 4Click on the blank square button after Opacityand add a Falloff map. Set the Falloff Type toFresnel(click here for an additional screen sho t).

Go up one level, back to the Glass material, by choosing Glass from the drop down menu(where it says Map #3, see the additional s creen shot.)

Step 5

Now that the main Glass m aterial is select again, scroll down in the Material Editor and add anew Raytrace map in the Refraction slot. Set the Refraction level to 80 .

Step 6To make the reflections and the colors smooth, instead of grainy, you will have to enableSupersampling for the Glass material (just above the Maps rollout. Enable the option EnableSampler and choose a method from the list. In most cases the Max 2.5 Star will do just fine,but if your machine can handle it, you can try others that may give better results.

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Step 7You can press F9 now to do a quick render, but it wont lo ok much like glas s yet. First you willneed to make some changes to your scene, the environment. Remember that glass isalmost entirely transparent and can be seen only because of the reflections of light andobjects in its surroundings.Lets start with adding a ground plane. Assign it a woo d material from the Material Library (weused the default Wood_As hen). Make sure the plane is large as sho wn in the screen shot.

Step 8

Next, lets makes some changes to the environment as the glass will need something toreflect. You can add object and a sky and such yourself, but for the sake of this tutorials anenvironment map will do. From the Renderingmenu, select Environment (or press 8). Clickthe big empty button belo w Environment Map and select Background_Mountains (or any otherbackground) from the Mtl Library.

Step 9If you render your scene again, you will see it will look very different and really glass-like.However, there are ways to make it more realistic. You could start by enabling the 2-Sidedoption for the Glass material. This will allow us to see the inside of the model. Click thethumb on the right for mo re info.

Render again, and notice the difference, if any. The results wont always look good,depending on the model.

Step 10Lets try another trick I like to use to make the glass more realistic, although it will make theglass object a hollow object (which is fine for many glass objects and often even desired).Select your object and press CTRL-V (select Copy and click OK) to clone it. Apply a Pushmo difier to the clone and s et the push value to -0 .5 (try other values after rendering to checkwhich works best for your model).

Step 11In the Material Editor m ake a copy o f the Glass m aterial and name it Glass Int. Make sure theoption 2-Sided is enabled for the Glass Int material but disabled for the Glass material.

Ass ign the Glas s Int material to the clone and make sure the original Glas s material isassigned to the outside model.

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3d donFebruary 9th, 2009 on 10:25 am

this tutorial is very very nice.really useful to beginers

Dante EscamillaMarch 9th, 200 9 o n 5:11 pm

Pretty coo l and us eful tutorial; congrats.

nemiga & co March 9th, 2009 on 7:11 pm

cool, thanx for help now its more looks like glass

skerMarch 21st, 2009 o n 1:30 p m

Render again (F9 or F10) and notice the difference. You should end up with somethingsimilar as shown on the right. The actual result will depend mostly on the geometry of yourmo del and its environment. Try out different background and check out the results.

This concludes m y glass material tutorial. Thanks for reading!

I hope you enjo yed this tutorial and that it contributed som ething to yo ur skills and kno wledge!

This tutorial is created originally for 3Dvalley.com. You are no t allowed to redistribute this tutorial in any form.

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Wow, that is exactly what I was lo oking fo r, thanks a lo t!

hossein3d Ap ri l 25 th, 20 0 9 o n 11:34 a m

hi,tnx for this work

aps126May 27th, 2009 on 1:12 am

thank u.thank-uits a very very nice tutorial and its very helpful to all beginners.I suffered for two days to make a frosty glass from o ther tutorial,but withthis ive done it in 20 minutes.thank you

David Banning

May 28th, 2009 on 12:53 pm

Still a go od tutorial after all these year. Thanks

kionJuly 9th, 2009 on 12:35 am

is there a reason why it loo ks black then i render its glass im trying to doan animation with it but cant please help

EmbunJuly 11th, 200 9 o n 11:17 pm

thank you s o much..this is very-very helpful.But in the end of this tutorial, (cmiiw) it looks like a pawn from acrylic thanglassperhaps, more s hinny and clear needed..how?

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genXJuly 11th, 2009 on 11:23 pm

bro ur goo dkeep up..thanx

jed July 25th, 2009 on 6 :25 am

Thank you s o m uch for this tutorial. Ive been looking for a eas y but goodglass tutorial for ages. Yours is the best one that Ive found.

Thanks

IvanAug ust 10 th, 20 0 9 o n 8 :33 p m

Omg.. The best of the best this is the mos t usefull tutorial for beginnerthat i see in the web. Thank you s o m uch for share your knowledges.

Thank you so much, FROM PERU!

nixSeptemb er 7th, 200 9 on 10:31 pm

Thank you very much, it(oo ps!!) helped a lot.

MerijnOctob er 1st, 2009 on 2:49 am

Excellent tutorial! Much appreciated!

rommahOctob er 27th, 2009 o n 12:20 am

Awesom e! Coo lnes s! Thank you so much sens ei! exactly what imloo king for! really easy and fun!=) the rendering went slower tho ugh, becof all the refraction etc(and a inferior hardware).. but this tutorial is big big

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help!! thank you again! =)

malcr001Novembe r 8th, 2009 on 10:14 am

Hi this is a great tutorial but o ne thing,

I get these sharp blue pixels across the cup for som e reason can anyone

help, there mo stly on one s ide? Other than this it lo oks great but I need toget rid of thos e blue lines!

Theres nothing in the scene that is blue it is rather odd. Please help asap!

Also what does the push mod ifier do?

**NiKs**Novembe r 11th, 2009 on 8:02 am

thats gud

KenDo- RafflesHCMDece mber 11th, 2009 o n 4:01 am

Thank u too much i got it from u ^^

jackDecember 26th, 2009 on 12:38 p m

good tut!but i do have a question.what about shadows?

i used a bo x to design a do or, and a omni light from the side . but whenrendering , i get a shadow like if its no t a glass at all..what to do ??

NATH

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January 17th, 2010 on 8:10 am

Very sim ple and useful tutorial and well presented

Thanks.

StratJanuary 28th, 2010 o n 11:05 am

Very goo d tutorial. It loo ks great but iwas wo ndering if it would bepos sible to change the color I am tring to make obs idian?

akshayFebruary 25th, 2010 on 4:56 am

hay thanks yar it very vary nice

tinaAp ri l 12 th, 20 10 o n 7:36 am

well pres ented, thanks

SumitMay 2nd, 2010 on 10:52 am

thanx for help its really nice

c,jMay 27th, 2010 on 12:36 pm

cool and useful tutorialnow its more looks like glass

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lolJune 5th, 2010 on 9 :25 am

Thanks a lot. I was lo oking around the net for so me useful glass m aterialand I found this us eful tutorial. It easy to understand and it really help mealot in my ass ignment. =) thx!!!

raviJune 21st, 2010 o n 9:18 am

thanks for providing step wise procedure.

jennyJune 22nd, 2010 o n 5:30 am

big thanks it helps a lot

utkarshJuly 7th, 2010 o n 8:31 am

thanx a lot dudeit was a great help

sachinJuly 10th, 2010 on 11:32 pm

thanksthanksits nice and helpful for me

Piotr Piszcze k Aug ust 5th, 2 0 10 o n 4:0 1 am

Why when i am rendering, where are white flash the background o f thatpoly beco mes black, other surface that are dos ent reflecting any light onsurface look very good. The light difraction inside glass look good too.But when i make for example a sphere there is a black squares on top o f

it whit white flash What i am doing wrong?

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khusroAug ust 7th, 20 10 o n 1:0 4 p m

thanks! for teaching a excellent model

khusroAug ust 7th, 20 10 o n 1:0 6 p m

if u have so me mo re tips on lights effect, how to s et alight, pls show m e

liliaAug ust 9t h, 20 10 o n 2:3 2 p m

thanks for these very informative and easy to follo w tutorial.Ive searcheda lo t, but this is one the bestId ever seen keep o n pos ting of differenttechniques.Thanks!!!

SnehaAug ust 11th, 20 10 o n 2:32 am

Thanks U so much!Such nice n easy tuts.

godieboyAug ust 24th, 20 10 o n 3:21 am

great is just that im lo king for thanks man, you are a crack! its a great

tutorial a needed todo a tube for chemistry thanks again

buddyharrySeptemb er 6th, 2010 o n 3:06 am

Awesom e tutorials for beginners..

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KellyOctob er 5th, 2010 o n 9:23 am

THANKS SO MUCHIT WORKED SO WELLIM SO HAPPY I CAN NOW MAKE GLASS VERY WELLYAYZIEEZZ Woo ps, I forgot caps was o n..LAWLZ

AGAIN THANKZZZ

JoshOctob er 12th, 2010 on 7:21 pm

Great, easy to follo w tutorial. Thanks for pos ting!

Lahiru Aruna Octob er 17th, 2010 on 12:01 am

Thank you very much

It,s really good and easy as well so keep doing this awesome work

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