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Why are my car windows like magnifying lenses ?

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 12:32 pm
by coilbook
Hi
I set my car windows IOR to 1.4 like glass supposed to be but It creates a very distorted refraction that real car windows do not have. I can only fix it by setting IOR to 1 but then it looks like glass window is missing. Any ideas
Thank you

Re: Why are my car windows like magnifying lenses ?

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 1:05 pm
by rsuleyman
It's possible that your windows have no thickness, so it's rendering as though it's one big solid piece of glass.

I don't use Max but in Cinema 4D I just extrude the single planes to give it some thickness and this solves the problem.

Rico

Re: Why are my car windows like magnifying lenses ?

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:39 pm
by coilbook
rsuleyman wrote:It's possible that your windows have no thickness, so it's rendering as though it's one big solid piece of glass.

I don't use Max but in Cinema 4D I just extrude the single planes to give it some thickness and this solves the problem.

Rico
Hi Rico
Thank you! That was the problem