Create Glass Using Arnold's aiStandardSurface in Maya 2018

Hi Creators,
This video tutorial was requested by one of my subscribers! I will show you how to create glass using Arnold's aiStandardSurface in Maya 2018. We will go over shaders, transmission, opacity, and more.
*Edit: water has a refractive index of about 1.3333*
Take a look!
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Software: Maya 2018, Arnold
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Well impressed. I've been scrawling around searches and websites for collectively about 6 hours to try and sort out my transmission issues. THANK YOU!!!! :)

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thank u thank u thank u! not only I learned how to create a glass material but also was able to resolve the issue I had with the desactivation of opaque in arnold

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[@user-fb6yp8xt5t]

wow. this whole time i thought I transmission was opacity! thank you!

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That's a common problem, alpha. Opacity is used to not see anything, versus transmission is for glass. I'm happy this was helpful!

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I'm glad it worked for you Hassan! Hopefully it demystify glass. :)

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You're tutorial is really well explain! Its gonna help me a lot Sadly I didn't managed to do the glass texture because I'm still really bad at using maya ;; but I'll try my best

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You are very welcome, Michael! Glass is a lot of fun to make. :)

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Thanku for the opaque option As my materials inside the glass get darks render output and I was trying everything I think it was due to some colour defect in material but it was the glass . Just close the opaque and done 👍👍

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Tutorial is great, I just wish the volume would be louder by default. Had to crank it up a lot to match my normal volume settings.

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Outstanding video as always Monica, two things, however: 1. Your link to the 3D file leads to your website front page, not to the video of glass. ;) 2. It would be really nice to know your lighting setup for the videos, since trying this ourselves in our scenes we've absolutely no chance to mimic the lighting :(

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Hi this was a great tutorial. I request you to create a detailed tutorial on how to render multiple aov's including light groups for comp. Also a tutorial on new render layer setup. Appreciated all your efforts.

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Hi Kushal, thank you for your comment and your suggestion! I'll definitely take a look at making a video about Arnold's AOVs. :) Keep an eye out!

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Thankyou for such detailed one, though, could you please share how shadows also get effected in such way that real glass materials give, I really need that.. thankyou again

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Hi thank you for this. I have been currently texturing a glass jar and was unsure where to plug the maps in Maya as I have some dust on the glass and scratches. Thank you again.

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u explained really good... plz make a video on render setting for maya 2018... thank you in advance .

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Thank you for your comment, Ashim. I think a video on render settings is important and overdue. :)

[@andreamarchetta160]

Hi ! Great tutorial, I've learned a lot from your channel ! Thank you. Just one question... I tried to do the same on a simple glass, just to experiment, and the tip of the glass is grey. No matter the hdri or the things that I put around the glass, it doesn't change... how can I fix it? Thank you again!!!

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Thank you.

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Great video, really helpful! One question, if I wanted to render stained glass like the ones in a church, how can I do that? I’m trying but it renders completely transparent, ignoring my image file

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Good tutorial make more videos please so we can learn from you

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nice...

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Denada. :)

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[@kamusik3724]

Hi, thanks for the tutorial! One question, my image plane does not seem to be rendered in the Arnold renderer... how do I fix this?

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Hi Kamusik, Are you using the image plane through the camera, or are you using geometry? The image plane in a camera is not really suppose to show up. You might want to put your image into a piece of geometry like a plane. Otherwise, it could be the shader that you are using. Try using lights and Arnold's aiStandardShader. Hopefully that works! I hope that helps.

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If we keep two mirror infront of each other do they will reflect each other images in maya. Please create a video

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same here bro

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That inverted scratch map reminds me of movie film

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[@sky-soldier-gaming7102]

for what do i need to use the "weight" option in "base"? at first of the tutorial i thought it was because all glasses must be with weight, but then you used it to help the scratches texture to be white, im a ,little bit confused hehe