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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] I need help! => Topic started by: Jpjapers on 2016-12-09, 09:32:17

Title: [solved] Does a glass material in corona behave like physical glass?
Post by: Jpjapers on 2016-12-09, 09:32:17

Someone on Max Forums posted a question about simulating lightguides (solid glass to change the direction of a beam of light)
I thought it sounded like something corona might be capable of after remembering the thread from a while back where someone had built actual lenses that worked infront of the max camera and i thought id give it a go. However i tried this and the light (rectangle light with directionality set to 1 and tried with 0) just disappears and doesnt shine out of the other side of the glass. is there anything i need to do to get it to work properly? Caustics are enabled but the light intensity through a solid block of glass is basically 0.

Thanks
Jack

EDIT: Sorry I should have put this in the help forums.Ive attached an image from the vfb. The black dot on one side of the block is a light set to the highest possible intensity of 999999 and as you can see nothing is coming through the other side.

Title: Re: Does a glass material in corona behave like physical glass?
Post by: Ondra on 2016-12-09, 13:05:38

yes, it works ;)

Title: Re: Does a glass material in corona behave like physical glass?
Post by: Jpjapers on 2016-12-09, 13:07:01

Hmmmmm. Have you done anything special with your setup? and does it work with a rectangular light?

Title: Re: Does a glass material in corona behave like physical glass?
Post by: Ondra on 2016-12-09, 13:10:14

it will work rectangular light, and only thing i did was set MSI to 0 and enabled caustics

Title: Re: Does a glass material in corona behave like physical glass?
Post by: Jpjapers on 2016-12-09, 13:26:48

Sample intensity. thank you!!