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Transparent glass

Anonymous
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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
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
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.
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Anonymous
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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?
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Stress Co_
Advisor
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.
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

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Anonymous
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ok thank you
Barry Kelly
Moderator
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.
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Stress Co_
Advisor
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?)
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.2.1 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Stress wrote:
(Can we report THAT as a bug?)
Sure if you look up your local reseller.

Barry.
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Marton Kiss
Graphisoft
Graphisoft
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
Marton Kiss
VP, Product Success
GRAPHISOFT
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Thankyou Marton.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
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