topic Re: milky frosted opal glass in Visualization

milky frosted opal glass

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:56:07 GMT

Hello!
How can I modify glass material to get frosted, milky or opal glass?

Thank you!

Re: milky frosted opal glass

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:09:58 GMT

I've moved your question to the Presentation/Rendering forum as that type of glass appearance is only (realistically) seen via rendering - e.g., Cinerender or TwinMotion.

The library (USA at least) has a glass surface in the standard template called Glass - Frosted.

Within AC itself, you can create a new Surface from one of the many options in the standard library, and yet others in the supplemental library available to people on SSA/subscription/ArchiPlus. Screenshots attached. From there, you can modify the appearance further as desired.

Within TwinMotion, you have other options for realistic materials that can be dragged and dropped to replace existing ones.

Re: milky frosted opal glass

Carstenem — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:52:51 GMT

to create your own version of frosted glass you need to adjust the transparency and reflection channel. How to do this check out this Cinerender Surface materials series. Part 4 + 5 talk about these 2 channels.

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=68823

Cheers Carsten

Re: milky frosted opal glass

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:21:04 GMT

Thank you both for your answers.
I succeeded!

Re: milky frosted opal glass

Carstenem — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 01:31:10 GMT

great thanks for letting us know