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milky frosted opal glass

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

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Carstenem
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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
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Karl Ottenstein
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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.
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Carstenem
Expert
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
Carsten
www.asmtechbase.com
https://www.youtube.com/asmtechbase

AC 3 to 26 -Windows 7 - 24GB - 8core 4.4Ghz
Anonymous
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Thank you both for your answers.
I succeeded!
Carstenem
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great thanks for letting us know
Carsten
www.asmtechbase.com
https://www.youtube.com/asmtechbase

AC 3 to 26 -Windows 7 - 24GB - 8core 4.4Ghz

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