Glass shader weirdness

[dduane]

Archonforest -- Sure, the .tgd is attached.

I did almost nothing but remove the shader that Hannes's .tgo object came with and replace it with the glass shader. Checked on the object's settings proper are: double-sided surface, visible to other rays, use smooth normals, cast shadows. On the glass shader itself, double-sided surface is checked. I changed no other glass shader settings from the default except to tint the "decay tint" setting a very light blue: strength is still set at 1.

To speed things up a little, I also turned the ray multiplier settings back down to .25 for the moment to see what would happen, and the "bubble" seems still to render just fine. There might be some slight loss of quality in the render, but I'm not overly fussed over that as there will shortly be other things going on "inside" the bubble that will obscure some of the view.

Hope this helps! -- DD

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[archonforest]

Thx for the file. I will chk your settings against mine to see where I made the mistake.

[dduane]

I wanted to drop in a message here to thank, again, everybody who was so helpful to me as I strove to get Terragen to do what I wanted for this book's cover.

I thought it might amuse everybody involved to see the final result. (At least it's final for the moment. Once I get my newer, faster-rendering machine in the house, no telling whether I'll take another run at this.)

The final image is something of a gallimaufry -- the planets and the "force field" bubble rendered in Terragen (though separately): the figures sourced from DAZ 3D: the lettering and the starfield and other minor details added in post-production, using Corel Photopaint.

If you're interested in info about the book itself, this is where you want to look:

http://dduane.tumblr.com/post/128629260686/young-wizards-lifeboats

Thanks again, friends! 

All the best -- Diane

[bobbystahr]

That worked out rather well KUDOs...