Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Something wrong with transparencies

kawecki opened this issue on Dec 13, 2006 ยท 27 posts


bagginsbill posted Thu, 14 December 2006 at 10:08 AM

Here's another example. I changed the Refraction_Color to a minty pale green, allowing more of the red and blue through. I also lowered the Refraction_Value to .5, meaning this glass is not completely transparent, in addition to being selective about what colors to pass.

As a result, the second reflection of the sphere is much reduced. This is accurate, because that light had to pass through the front face, get refracted and reduced as it passed through the interior, then reflected off the back face, refracted and reduced again, and finally comes out the other side.

In this regard, Poser's handling of reflection and refraction is quite advanced. Instead of saying "Yet another reason to use other apps for rendering.", it would be more correct to say "yet another reason to learn how to use Poser's features properly."

Shall we talk about nostril glow? ;-)


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