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This applies to TS 7.61 beta 8;

I've made clear glass before and light shines through just fine, however.......

ok, I've got a stained glass window texture and I cannot seem to get light to shine through it. I've studied my past work, scenes, where I've made glass, Ive tried to do the same, but no light shining through. al help greatly appreciated.

oh, p.s., I'm using a "plane" of course for the stained glass window.

Rob

Allow me to contribute absolutely nothing useful to this by only saying: I'm wondering about this as well. Can it even be done?

MikomDude wrote:Allow me to contribute absolutely nothing useful to this by only saying: I'm wondering about this as well. Can it even be done?

hehe. Thats ok.
However, I could have swore I've done this before and I was right. This is what you do (what I did):

Material Editor:
a. your stained glass texture.
b. Plain Transparency. (Obviously you don't need much at all, cause stained glass is not very see through).
c. Reflectance: Glass.

Plane where texture is applied to:
Object Properties>Render Options:
a. Cast Shadows OFF (unchecked)
b. Receive Shadows ON or OFF. It made no difference.

when light is placed outside the room and in front and above the window, light shines through as if its sunny or moon-light outside
depending upon Intensity setting. Add some volumetrics for effect.


Rob

Yeah that's about the only way I have ever managed to get a similar effect as well. Anywho, it's not like trueSpace has an up-to-date render engine anyway.

On TS model side:

Set at least one light to transparent shadows.

To project the stained glass pattern (if it is a color texture) leave cast shadows on for the object.

Don't know about workspace.

I know how w/ VRay or in Model w/ Lightworks but not sure how you'd do it using DX/realtime.

I fiddled around with it but no DX joy. Dunno how you guys can work with that Material Editor.

Just occurred to me, maybe you could fake it with a projector light.

Yes, with the realtime DX shaders, you can only get some cool caustics or transparency from a projector light and it's projected texture. It's a small game engine work-around, as nothing will calculate caustics in realtime. If I remember clearly, the transparency Z layering also is a bit strange (gradient alpha on gradient alpha will jump back and forth over each other), I think this is a DirectX9 issue.