Showing transparency of glass

franznad

How do I show I am looking through a glass screen Eg. The rear of a shower cubicle?

remus

i take it you alreadye applied a glass texture to the surface?

dylan

How do I show I am looking through a glass screen Eg. The rear of a shower cubicle?

There should be a glass texture in your materials library (Window/Materials)

Apply that to a surface and it will become transparant.
You can change the opacity to suit your requirements in the Materials Palette.
Click on the Edit tab and you have several available options to adjust the look of the material.

TIG

You can get weird effects if you paint the front of the face transparent and the back of the face an opaque material. You can only see through it one way...

Also you need to have transparency 'switched on' in the current style's settings... Edit > Face Settings > Enable Transparency = Ticked...

franznad

@unknownuser said:

@franznad said:

How do I show I am looking through a glass screen Eg. The rear of a shower cubicle?

There should be a glass texture in your materials library (Window/Materials)

Apply that to a surface and it will become transparant.
You can change the opacity to suit your requirements in the Materials Palette.
Click on the Edit tab and you have several available options to adjust the look of the material.

"Dylan" Thanks for the info. It works well.
Franznad

franznad

@tig said:

You can get weird effects if you paint the front of the face transparent and the back of the face an opaque material. You can only see through it one way...

Also you need to have transparency 'switched on' in the current style's settings... Edit > Face Settings > Enable Transparency = Ticked...

"Tig" I did try out the one way effect it worked well.
I'm afraid I am a complete novice at Sketchup and am not sure where to find 'transparency'. I've put the word transparency in on line help but there again came up with nothing useful. The end product of this project is a refurbished bathroom, but frankly, I'm struggling with the whole thing. I suppose I should play through all the tutorials again and see what more I can glean.
Franznad

Franznad

Gaieus

Hi freanznad,

You can read about the material editor here (SU Guide > Modele settings and managers > Material browser).

Transparency is somewhere around 2/3 down on the page (not too much info though when you learn how to use it you'll see that not too much info needed...)