Lighting issues with transparent plastics

Started by PopaPork, February 04, 2011, 06:59:00 AM

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PopaPork

I am trying to render out a plastic container that holds a saw blade (not a very deep part) that has a plastic, lightly frosted lid.  In the working windown with realtime rendering it looks pretty good.  You can see the color of the main part coming through the lid.  But when I render it out, the blue under the clear lid is black.  I have my ray bounces set to 8, the plastic is double sided, and I have detailed indirect illumination selected. 
Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? 
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JeffM

If you could put up a screenshot showing this, that would be helpful. If you don't want to post here, if possible, send to support@luxion.com.

If you're on version 2.1 you can do your rendering's using the "realtime mode" which you enable in the "render" menu. This will use the exact same rendering technique as what you see in realtime so that you really get what you see.