letsknow Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Hi, i am quite new to using Maxwell and have produced some nice results so far, but i am really really struggling with getting my glass to look clear. i am rendering an interior shop view, with no outside light, and everything else looks ok, but the glass is still really 'noisy' at SL20, other things i have tried everything looks fine at SL18. i have changed the white ceiling to be 'off' white (240,240,240), i have turned off loads of the reflections (black unitry and the floor), i have tried upping the lighting, lowering the lighting, changing the camera settings, but NOTHING i do seems to help. as i said i am quite new to maxwell (not formZ), so i may well be doing something fundamentally wrong, but for the life on me i have no idea what. any help MUCH appreciated. thanks Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Did you try the architectural glass? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsknow Posted May 4, 2015 Author Share Posted May 4, 2015 Hi Rob, thanks for the tip, I have tried using "glassfastinterior_9803.mxm", which does get rid of the noise, but is a bit too see through, it is almost as if there is nothing there, is there a way of tweaking this material so it is a bit more visible and also to add back in the edges of the glass? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 As Rob said, use an AGS glass and you can turn up the reflectivity. Make sure you have plenty of light sources in the model, sometimes I use a large emitter behind the camera (acts like a flash). Also, keep the emitter geometry very low. The glass not clearing up could be due to the light sources behind the glass. If you use AGS, you will get reflections, but not caustics. And look for tips on interior rendering on the maxwell support site as well. Des Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 You can edit your glassfastinterior_9803.mxm in the MXED editor that comes with the Maxwell render suite. Alternately, in MXED, create a new AGS preset material, save that, and use it in your formZ project as a referenced MXM. http://support.nextlimit.com/display/mxdocsv3/Maxwell+Materials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsknow Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 I have spent another long day trying different settings, i have re lit the whole model making sure no emitters are overlapping anything, i have tried and failed to amend glassfastinterior_9803.mxm material, i don't understand as it has 4 layers how do i add more detail to the glass so it still has defined edges, the same goes for the AGS preset glass, this seems to work fine if i didn't need to see the edges. is there a simple way of adding the glass edge to the AGS glass without turning it back into high grade glass. it is so frustrating, this is the last thing i need to get right! any ideas welcome, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Please post a small section of your project that is set up to render, and we will see what can be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsknow Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Please post a small section of your project that is set up to render, and we will see what can be done. can you clarify what you mean by small section? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 A section of your formZ project that exhibits the problem, as a FMZ file. Include all necessary file dependencies such as MXMs, textures, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsknow Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 is this OK? https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fa11te26demq19f/AAD5dv0xAwQ9zII9hdBZIYaMa?dl=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsknow Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 found the solution, thanks to Fernado and to Steve for their Help. i needed to hide them from global illumination in the forms pick attributes - maxwell attributes, the original glass was OK the lights were OK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Hi, Sorry we missed that you posted a sample file... not sure how that happened. Can you post the file again? We have recently made some adjustments to the plugin and are interested to see if these would help with the situation you experienced. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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