Create Glass Using Arnold's aiStandardSurface in Maya 2018

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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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[@minipinkrosa]

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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It's still helpful, clear, nice speed and smooth!

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[@am5724]

Best glass tut ever

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Wonderful tutorial, thank you. Straight to the point and exactly what I was looking for!

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Simple and awesome tutorial , thank you for this video !!

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[@silvaazarian4296]

Best arnold glass effect video . Thank you so much .

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[@venkatVadisetti]

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

[@hazaonly]

Thankx! only your tutorial actually workd for me!

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

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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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[@anime-nation]

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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Omg thank you so much, your video was just what I needed

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[@mikkelgedehansen9479]

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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Don't you love how glass reacts to light and refractions? It's so fascinating! I'm glad this tutorial was helpful. Keep an eye out for more!

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great video! Thank you

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I'm so glad You use such old arnold here. Could You please point to us, how to change transmittance depth in Arnold 4 :? ( Fog bias effect from vray. )

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Best Tutorial on glass I have found... not joking, I have looked at maybe 25 today.... 1 like and 1 subscriber coming up..... *******

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[@compositingwithkushal]

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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Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

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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 this was very helpful

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

[@Ange-C]

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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ty now i wont fail

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That inverted scratch map reminds me of movie film

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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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Thank God great lesson

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[@jabbersinc6218]

thank you, glass master

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Thank you making things so easy .Your tutorials are always very helpful, tho I have a question: how do we enable the RGBA-denoise AOV in Arnold render view, or Beauty is the only default?

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[@jyotishj7582]

How to get a Translucent Alpha matte for glass shader ?

[@KsantoshKumar_]

Mam 1 question....how to get that background light??? Pls tell me .... I cannot use arnold render ...

[@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

[@jhonatanchambi478]

One question, why in the bottom of the cup of glass it´s so dark?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Hi Jhonatan, thank you for your comment. The glass appears to be dark because it's refracting the shadow at the bottom of the glass. It could also be that the mesh is not perfect in comparison to real life, so it could be warping the refractions a bit. Another reason could be the values for the render are no high enough. Sorry that it's an eye sore, but I hope the tutorial helped you understand a glass shader.

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[@conceptinstinct3287]

Most glasses have Blue or Green tints around the edges. How do you add those tints while keeping the main glass surfaces clear?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Have you tried combining aiFacingRatio, to get that look? Here is a tutorial on this cool node. :) . kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYLEiKeffd59oLc . I hope that helps!

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how did u get a background?

[@Oscar-vh3if]

I really like your videos, which are very helpful for me. I want to ask a question, do you know how to make rust by Arnold's aiStandardSurface?

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Hi Oscar, thank you for your comment! I'm happy to hear it was helpful. :) I have a tutorial on how to use Occlusion to drive textures, like rust. Please take a look! I hope it helps. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4q6aouteqt9hbc

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Thank you very much!

[@Oscar-vh3if]

Thank you so much!

[@euhkun3761]

how did you get that shadow im trying to make windows but they dont dont give me a shadow

[@afrodailytv4335]

how to make the glass which is transparent when compositing green screen footage behind it?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

The age old problem, Thomas. I recommend you export a separate AOV for transmission and composite that in. :)

[@afrodailytv4335]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus thank you

[@lilitbeglarian7942]

Thank you so much for this!

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You are very welcome Lilit! I'm glad it was helpful!

[@Sylxtervfc]

Can u do render gun on arnold

[@RW-bx1ny]

Any reason the textures are more blurry behind the glass?

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Just refractions. You can increase your render settings to get a stronger image. :)

[@RW-bx1ny]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus it was actually the mip map bias in the texture. Need to set that to a negative number. Something like -5. Posting in case anyone else comes looking. That problem plauged me for weeks.

[@3dwithme595]

How can I get a background image ?

[@nightstar4195]

if opacity maps are to be used then where to put it in ? In weight or color.

[@ReconnectionFitness]

I have been trying to figure this out for weeks, and I thought you could help me. How would I make frosted glass? I want to make a light with a frosted white glass around it and I seriously have no idea how I would go about that. If you could help with that, then that would be great. Thanks!

[@shougarifi8336]

I have a question, how I’d you get the background?

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Hi Shoug, thank you for your comment. You can download the file with the background at www.academicphoenixplus.com/downloads Don't forget to set your background and the background with the lights will appear. I hope that helps!

[@akhil.vfx.cgi.learning]

Thanks again 👍

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[@justchill153]

Which format is that scratch image used? I don't get that part clearly pls anyone help

[@pablosinhache]

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

[@prajeeshv6091]

but how we get alpha channel ( See-through) glass mat in arnold

[@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?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

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.

[@mirzafardeen1257]

My transmission color doesnt show up while rendering , anything you can tell ?

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

Hi Mirza, I'm sorry this isn't working! Did you select your mesh, go the the shape node, and make sure 'opaque' is turned off? (it's under Arnold). I hope that works!

[@mirzafardeen1257]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus Yes, it did work . Thank you .

[@sim1c.44]

I need your help😖.. if I set the value of transmission to 1 the shadows disappears completely!!! Even when Opacity is on... What i make wrong???

[@TheDanGoldstein]

Thanks for this awesome video! Question: in this scene if you were to turn the aiskydome off for the render by turning the Camera slider all the way down in its settings, how could you also make it so that the aiskydome image also doesnt show up in the glass and only uses the lighting so the aiskydome is nowhere to be seen but still lights the glass? Thanks!

[@AcademicPhoenixPlus]

I had to do a little hunting, but if you turn down the Transmissions, the reflection doesn't appear on the glass. I hope that helps!

[@TheDanGoldstein]

@@AcademicPhoenixPlus awesome thank you so much! :)

[@yamishippuuden]

you are awesome! thanks!

[@yantingye1677]

hi,Why my galss do not have shadow?help

[@christianabriojo791]

Excelente.. muchas gracias