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    Default Re: What's the best plugin that creates a glass effect?

    Hi Paokun,

    Welcome to Talkgraphics.

    I haven't tried the panopticum plug-in. I have the Eye Candy 4000. The attached is a quick application of the plug-in on a simple text shape from the font "Devil Inside".

    The second image with the clipart background has some Xara Xtreme transparancy applied after the glass plug-in was used.
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    Last edited by Soquili; 27 June 2006 at 01:37 AM.
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    Default Re: What's the best plugin that creates a glass effect?

    hi everyone and thanks for your kind replies:-)
    i think the eye candy 4000 is a nice plugin and it creates glassy like effects so i think i'll keep using it.
    but actually, the eye candy glass effect makes an object look a bit like gum or plastic as well, as you can see from the soquili post.

    i paste here two urls of two images to give you an idea of a result i'd like to get. the first one is a windows logo that looks solid, but not much like a glass.
    the second one is a great glassy effect, which i would really love to get.
    i wish there was a plugin that can make it, take a look please:-)

    http://www.morpheus2005.altervista.o...ion%20Blur.jpg

    http://www.morpheus2005.altervista.o...ed%20Glass.jpg

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    Default Re: What's the best plugin that creates a glass effect?

    here's another great glass effect:

    http://www.tsirman.com/wallpapers/Wi...0-%20Glass.jpg

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    Default Re: What's the best plugin that creates a glass effect?

    Paokun,

    The links you provided look like 3D renderings instead of vector or bitmap drawings with a plug-in applied.

    Programs like Truespace, Cinema4D, Maya, etc. can be used to create those types of images.
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    Default Re: What's the best plugin that creates a glass effect?

    oh i see, sorry;-)
    i'll try some of them, thanks for your help!:-)

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    Default Re: What's the best plugin that creates a glass effect?

    Quote Originally Posted by Soquili
    Hi Paokun,

    Welcome to Talkgraphics.

    I haven't tried the panopticum plug-in. I have the Eye Candy 4000. The attached is a quick application of the plug-in on a simple text shape from the font "Devil Inside".

    The second image with the clipart background has some Xara Xtreme transparancy applied after the glass plug-in was used.
    very nice bird by the way soquili.

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    Default Re: What's the best plugin that creates a glass effect?

    Just to add about transparency, although not very scientific...

    The more surface thickness you have in the design of objects the better things like transparency, luminosity and reflectance will take on a real life appearance.

    Surface thickness for example in 3D software can be done by subdivision. What this does is add more planes (actually vertices are added.) With more planes, there is more area for rendering to do its job when trying to emulate a transparency.

    You can with the patience of a Saint or Devil emulate transparent glass with 2D software.

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    Default Re: What's the best plugin that creates a glass effect?

    Thanks Ankhor, the bird shape is actually an N character from the font I used.

    James, it's the lack of patience that makes using a 3D program such a saver of what hair I have left
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