Does this glass refraction look right? Also, transparency takes REALLY long to render

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I understand that glass does refract light, but for some reason this looks wrong to me. I’m just looking for feedback.
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Sorry the scene’s too bright, but you should be able to make out everything. It’s a lighthouse with a sphere inside where the light would be.

Also, having the glass panes in the window vs. not having anything there makes my render time jump from around 5 seconds to 5+ minutes per frame. I have a sun and environment lighting (both intensity 1; I’ll tone them down) which both use ray tracing, but I wouldn’t have expected a 60x or more increase in render time. Is something wrong or is that normal?

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It looks ok to me.

You do get longer render time; each class panel do need to have ray traced.

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Glass panels shouldn’t have that much refraction. To me that looks like solid block of glass, like a prism. If you want to use refraction, make sure you model an actual thickness to each panel.