topic Re: Transparrent glass in Visualization

Transparent glass

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:02:53 GMT

Hello After the upgrade to archicad 18 i don't seem to be getting the same results on my sketchrenderings .
The shading is to strong and glass is not transparent. i have looked for a way to get transparent glass on sketch renders on this forum for quite some time now without luck. can you help me ?
Attached is the photo of my render using the following settings.
Scene Koh-I-Noor
Engine Sketch
Default Koh-I-Noor settings in enhancements, Sketch line settings Hatch line settings and shadow settings. the 3d window shows glass as transparent

Re: Transparrent glass

Barry Kelly — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:12:15 GMT

For the shadow darkness you can decrease both the 'Darkness' and 'Spacing Density' in the 'Shadow Line Settings' section of the render settings dialogue.

As for transparent glass I don't think you can have this in a sketch render.
I may be wrong as I don't do many sketch renders but I see no setting for it.

Barry.

Re: Transparrent glass

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:34:52 GMT

Here is a render made in archicad 17, by a colleague. i'm told that there was a setting to make glass transparent but he doesn't remember where it is. also he cant find it in 18?

Re: Transparrent glass

Stress Co_ — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:39:43 GMT

kevinerhard wrote:
i'm told that there was a setting to make glass transparent but he doesn't remember where it is. also he cant find it in 18?

In AC17, Sketch Render matched the glass transparency of the 3D window.
View> 3D View Options> 3D window settings> "transparency in shading> ON

Doesn't work in AC18
I'd say a bug.

Re: Transparrent glass

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:07:02 GMT

ok thank you

Re: Transparrent glass

Barry Kelly — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:13:54 GMT

Stress wrote:
In AC17, Sketch Render matched the glass transparency of the 3D window.
View> 3D View Options> 3D window settings> "transparency in shading> ON

Doesn't work in AC18
I'd say a bug.

I just tested this and can confirm this is the case unfortunately.

I have reported it as a bug.

Barry.

Re: Transparrent glass

Stress Co_ — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 23:42:47 GMT

Barry wrote:
I have reported it as a bug.

Thank you Barry.
It's a shame the "Report a bug" link (above) doesn't open
a contact form with direct access to the powers that be.

It assumes everyone knows to look up their local reseller and report to them.
(Can we report THAT as a bug?)

Re: Transparrent glass

Barry Kelly — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:44:28 GMT

Stress wrote:
(Can we report THAT as a bug?)

Sure if you look up your local reseller.

Barry.

Re: Transparrent glass

Marton Kiss — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:53:36 GMT

Barry wrote:
I have reported it as a bug.

Thanks Barry. I can confirm that this is a bug, we have already addressed it in the code. We will release the solution with the first update for AC18 coming early Fall.

Marton

Re: Transparent glass

Barry Kelly — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:17:42 GMT

Thankyou Marton.

Barry.

Re: Transparent glass

Stress Co_ — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:23:55 GMT

Fixed with the new update.
Hot fix 4006

Re: Transparent glass

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:49:58 GMT

As update 4006 has been retracted, still having this problem. Even setting glass transparency to 100% does not help. I am having to change my window to an open frame (no glass within it) to be see-through.

Re: Transparent glass

Erwin Edel — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:09:28 GMT

Quick workaround: save back to ArchiCAD 17 for making the sketchrender?

Re: Transparent glass

Erwin Edel — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:33:47 GMT

Reverse problem, does anyone know how to make the sketch render ignore transparancy now in ArchiCAD18? It used to be if you turned off transparancy in 3d window settings you would not see through glass. This doesn't appear to have any effect now.

Re: Transparent glass

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:12:14 GMT

Hi All,

I realise this is an old topic, however my office is running ArchiCAD 18 SOLO and we are still having the same problems. Is there an update out soon for SOLO that will resolve this? Any insight is greatly appreciated.