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I’m not sure if this is too complicated to ask, someone else may have to do the tutorial themself to answer my question. I’m trying to do this glass tutorial from Phong.com:
<http://www.phong.com/tutorials/glass/>
What I wanted to do, was use my own background instead of the background picture they provided there. My background is a Grid. The Grid contains intersecting blue lines (like graphing paper) with a black background. Whenever I get to the step where I apply the glass filter, I adjust the distort settings, and the smoothness settings and apply it, but the result doesn’t look anything like glass. All it does is twist and distort the lines on my grid. There are no refractions at all to make it look like its glass. I’m wondering if the problem is having a black background, but at the bottom of that page, it shows an example where it says "phong" in front of a watery looking image, where the right side is black and it still seemed to work.
For the hell of it, I decided to try using the background they provided and it definitely seemed to work better, I could see the refractions where the glass was being reflected. But like I said, it wont do that with my background at all, I’m wondering how I can accomplish this. thanks!
<http://www.phong.com/tutorials/glass/>
What I wanted to do, was use my own background instead of the background picture they provided there. My background is a Grid. The Grid contains intersecting blue lines (like graphing paper) with a black background. Whenever I get to the step where I apply the glass filter, I adjust the distort settings, and the smoothness settings and apply it, but the result doesn’t look anything like glass. All it does is twist and distort the lines on my grid. There are no refractions at all to make it look like its glass. I’m wondering if the problem is having a black background, but at the bottom of that page, it shows an example where it says "phong" in front of a watery looking image, where the right side is black and it still seemed to work.
For the hell of it, I decided to try using the background they provided and it definitely seemed to work better, I could see the refractions where the glass was being reflected. But like I said, it wont do that with my background at all, I’m wondering how I can accomplish this. thanks!
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