Mesh object - transparent effect?

[Jasper Silvershade]

Hello,

Im still very new to mesh, and when fooling around in blender crafted a simple mesh vial/bottle

So my question is, is there a way to give it a transparent effect? or the look of glass?

 

[Aquila Kytori]

Hi Jasper

I'm guessing its a glass effect you want to create in Blender and not in SL .

Have a look at these 2 video tutorials :

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

Not the best tutorial for two reasons.

One, it's not a realtime environment with a baked texture. Two, I don't think the render in cycles will let you bake any textures, NVidia iray (which as far as I know kind of works the same) won't do it anyway.

Nice glass though.

I think a better way to fake a bottle texture for SL is by not using a render at all. Probably easier to take some pictures of a real bottle and make the texture in photoshop or gimp.

[Min Barzane]

Make your vial/bottle in blender,single sided,unwrap and bake AO than use solidify to make it double sided sharing same UV,in SL make it about 40% transparent and you got nice glass effect. Thats what i did for medical thermometer,same procedure for transparent glass part and it came out preety nice.