Gawdzira Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Is there a way to make this sort of design with the railing tool or should I just suck it up and model the darn thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 NIce ! Glass wall perhaps rather than a railing but p-solids are likely what you will end up with in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHampton Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 The program can build the top rail if you want. ...but as far as glass coming past the treads & stringers ...and the metal stand-offs... it's poly-line solid time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 Maybe it is different for the exterior view you are showing, but, I am not able to get the transparent look through to the surfaces close behind the glass. This image is rtrt pbr. Using the otb tempered glass. The glass pieces below are different distances farther away. The bottom one is almost 2" away. Any methods to get that to not turn brown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHampton Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Really nice work Alan. I cant't help with the PBR question though. ...Have you tried changing the glass setting? Maybe to a different type of glass? The refraction in that rendered view is probably true to the real world to some extent, since glass will act like a mirror when it's got something very close behind it. Observation... The darker tone is showing up in the edges as it would with real glass. Aside from exploring another glass type/setting, how about making one of the sample sections paper thin - like 1/8th of an inch. Maybe you'll pick up a bit more transparency? Again, I have no absolutely idea, but it can't hurt to try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renerabbitt Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Gawdzira said: Maybe it is different for the exterior view you are showing, but, I am not able to get the transparent look through to the surfaces close behind the glass. This image is rtrt pbr. Using the otb tempered glass. The glass pieces below are different distances farther away. The bottom one is almost 2" away. Any methods to get that to not turn brown? Lower IOR, Higher Sample rate, might need a user-added-light, consider exploding the solid and resizing the back plane to deck level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted April 7, 2022 Author Share Posted April 7, 2022 Thanks for all the suggestions. I think the added light really kicked it up. Now to work out my light bleed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 https://fhc-usa.com/ Here is a company that manufactures glass railings including all details and ICC- reports. very handy, especially in California and Nation wide They also provide lots of other glass things like shower doors. The webinars are very informative pertaining to codes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted April 7, 2022 Author Share Posted April 7, 2022 Thanks Perry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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