markschum said:

Quote - some translucency, some specular and a bit of transparency (maybe).   There are some free glass materials that may give you a starting point.  renderosity and runtimedna freestuff.

 

Please see settings screen cap. (P.S. can't find any glass mats for Poser5)

Miss Nancy,

I've tried your suggestions but it just looks even worse, trouble is I have no idea what to try and which setting/channel controls what. Especially as Poser5 seems so different to anything else I normally use. There's nowhere to put a fresnel of 1.53 or 153.  Transparency doesn't seem to make anything at all transparent - just misty.

I'm despairing.

Dear primorge,

I'm really sorry - after all your effort - but I need to get the glass right - I couldn't care less about the figure - it's naff and plastic, and anyway I hate using figures, always did - I didn't have dolls as a child I had a lovely garage that my dad made - immensly more fun than dolls - but I just need it to scale things by, and unfortunately I'm not having fun with Poser5 - I hate it, but it's all I've got.

I just need to get the glass looking okay, then the figure will be deleted and the file saved with just the glass table. (the lanterns and even the street will be deleted, leaving just the table).

That's all I want.  Sorry.

Here's the state of the table so far - to me it looks a lot worse:

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

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