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#Glass problems

    04-Dec-90 09:03:55
Sb: #Glass problems
Fm: Andrew Hobbs 72711,3577
To: Stan Kalisher (Impulse) 76004,1767
I've got a small problem… I'm using Imagine v1.0. And I can't get any object to be transparent at all. I have attributes filter set all the way up, reflect at zero. Etc. And color set as black. The index of refraction is set at 1.82. My scene has 3 lights: 2 above and to each side, and a white source in the middle of a pyramide of spheres defined above. The spheres after rendering, have a smooth opaque color to them. But you cannot see the white source in it, only through the cracks. I was rendering in full trace mode. Is this a problem in Imagine? Or is there something I'm not doing? If so, how would I make a glass sphere in Imagine? Also…. For rendering…. What are the Aspect values for Digital Creation's DCTV? Or how can I find out? The res is 768 by 484. Thanks, Andrew Hobbs