Glass bottles etc.

Hi, I'm having problems trying to create glass effects. I've
created a bottle and I want to make it look transparent and have
labels on it.



I have the effect that I need except the bottle is solid. Is
there any examples that I can look at?



Cheers for any help on this.



Simon.Glass bottles etc.
There's a number of ways of doing this:



You can set the 'blend' property of a shader, to make the
whole shader transparent.



Alternatively you can set the blendFunction and blendConstant
of an individual texture layer within a shader.



A third method would be to use a texture image which contains
an alpha channel. For this, ensure the textureRenderFormat is set
to #rgba8888 so that you have 8 bits for the alpha channel (rather
than the default 1 bit).



For more info look up all these in the director help: Shader
-%26gt; properties, blendFunction, blendConstant,
textureRenderFormat.



Hope this helps!



- BenGlass bottles etc.
Glass can be a tough effect to get right.



With a mixture of multiply blendFunction mode on the
reflection map, and

setting up suitable ambient, diffuse and specular colours,
it's possible

to get a fairly good glass effect.



Here's an example of one I was involved with several months
ago ( the

actual content itself is very simple, but you'll see the
glass effect if

you grab and drag the mouse to rotate around the item
containing the

spinning vanes )


http://www.candointeractive.com/resistors/crookesradiometer



Mal

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