Thanks for this, I always went back to Maya to do any glass renders because I could never get Blender to render glass out properly. There are some great tutorials out but this is the first that shows how to create proper glass in blender. Blender is differently interesting but there are somethings I think it needs to catch up on with Maya.
But, is the greenish tint really dependent on the thickness? Or is it more common along the cutting edges? Take a 5 inch sphere of glass, afaik it doesn’t really appear than green? Then again the edges of a glass table … definitely green. Would be interested to know how you fake the rainbow effect that sometimes appears on car headlight glass 🤩
Maybe I'm missing something, but I can never get my glass to actually look clear. Has this changed in Blender 4.0/4.1? Trying to follow along with this for a project I'm working on.
You can use volumetrics for pretty much any transparent material that has an absorption depth. Other renderers like Arnold for example have this built in the shader as a slider that adds extra depth absorption. Blender simply chose to give a much more modular approach, here and offer the user to include depth absorption manually. You can use it for murky water for example or add some depth mapping and color ramp if you want to go crazy.
