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Glass Reflection Effect – SketchUp and V-Ray

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By Jonathan Pagaduan Ignas

Let’s get a reflection onto your glass, for added realism. Architectural 2D to 3D visualizer and graphic artist Jonathan Pagaduan Ignas shows youhow in this great little tutorial he has contributed to us here at SketchUpArtists.

Here are a few easy steps to a glass reflection effect using Google SketchUp and V-Ray for SketchUp..let’s get started!

Step 1 - Import Image File

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Step 2 - Place Image in Glass

Step 3 - Position Texture

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Step 4 - Sample Texture with Dropper

Step 5 - Edit Texture

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Step 6 - Default Glass Material

Step 7 - Emphasize Transparency

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Final Rendered Image with Reflection

Hope you found this useful and thanks for reading.

Jonathan

Johnathan is based in San. Vicente, Victoria, Tarlac in the Philippines. His areas of expertise include architectural planning and designing, 3Dmodeling and 3D visualization. He is skilled in Photoshop, Autocad, SketchUp, V-Ray for SketchUp and Photoscape. You can see more ofJonathan’s work here on his website.

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12 Responses to “Glass Reflection Effect – SketchUp and V-Ray”

1. Leong on August 6th, 2011 5:53 am

Thanks a lot , you do a great help ..

2. ashfaq ismail on August 12th, 2011 9:53 am

thanx -cool!

3. Noeljarod on September 5th, 2011 11:03 pm

Great!. thanks for the tutorial!

The only bad thing that I found is the angle and the opacity of the image. I think that the image used as mateial should be more transparent,and the image perhaps should have another perspective point, the final render could look more realistic. Could you make an image trying

this? I will appreciate it so much, cause i m learning but right now I don´t have a computer to try by myself.

Thanks again.

4. json on November 5th, 2011 7:05 am

thank u very much

5. red on November 18th, 2011 6:04 am

salamat sa tutorial na to….

6. ching on January 19th, 2012 6:50 am

I like your tutorials coz its very easy to follow, im just a beginner and i’ve learned a lot. Thank you

7. Éllen on February 4th, 2012 9:43 pm

Ótimo tutorial! Parabéns.

8. Reem on May 5th, 2012 10:58 am

Thank so much ! that was helpful please I have a question ! in step (number 5) I don’t have Vray for sketch Up ! (But the vary is installed and I use it normally )

please help ! thanxx again

9. Ronald EM on June 24th, 2012 5:14 am

Thanks a lot!! easy to get but with a great value tutorial… thanks again

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10. danangs on September 4th, 2012 4:21 am

mantapssss

11. gun on September 20th, 2012 5:18 am

Its great idea. you place an image as material in a glass model, then make its transparant. thanks for tricks.

12. khizoul endaya on September 24th, 2012 6:06 pm

in step number 5,i dont have an option for vray linked.

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