Creating a Realistic Glass Material

../../../_images/material_glass.png — **Glass material**

Main parameters:

Diffuse color set to black

Reflection color set to white

Transmission color set to white

Fresnel enabled

Double sided

IOR set to 1.55

This setup uses RED::IMaterial::SetupRealisticMaterial to produce a glass material. The setup relies on energy preservation and Fresnel to balance the energy between reflection and transmission. A glass material has no diffuse term, is transparent and fully reflective. Fresnel then does the job. The IOR may be changed depending on the kind of transparent glass looking surface to simulate.