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Light passing through glass About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Light passing through glass // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by Paul Boland // Dec 24, 2007, 8:53am Paul Boland Total Posts: 383 Hi Folks. I have a scene with a glass object in it and a light sourse set to cast shadows. All is well except that the shadows from the light source are solid dark shadows, the light passing through the glass is not picking up the colour and refractions of the glass. I am rendering with Ray Tracing turned on which is PAINFULLY SLOW (would really love to have VRay for this scene), but still getting solid dark shadows. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to create a realistice effect of the light passing through the glass? Post by kena // Dec 24, 2007, 8:58am kena Total Posts: 2321 I'm at work so cannot give you screen shots, hope this helps: Click on your light source this will bring up the object panel click on the shadow icon to turn shadows on. now right-click on the shadow panel, and you can select "transparent shadows" for the shadow type. This is in the model side, which I'm most comfortable with. Post by Paul Boland // Dec 24, 2007, 9:17am Paul Boland Total Posts: 383 Thanks, Kena. I'll give that a try later tonight and see if I get the results I want. Appreciate the advice. Post by jayr // Dec 24, 2007, 10:19am jayr Total Posts: 1074 also make sure the shadow type is 'ray tracing' as well as raycast being set in the render engine Post by Paul Boland // Dec 24, 2007, 11:30am Paul Boland Total Posts: 383 Just about to go offline and do this new render. Thanks for the extra bit of info Jayr, appreciate it. Post by Paul Boland // Dec 25, 2007, 9:16am Paul Boland Total Posts: 383 That worked great, thanks very much. Post by kena // Dec 25, 2007, 9:31am kena Total Posts: 2321 Always glad to help! :D

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