Fixing the bright white sheen on glass or reflective materials

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Putting this one out the the blenderians.

I’m going through Grant Abbitt’s neat tutorial for the sea shack, and I’m struggling with glass and refraction. I have almost got it… (I think), but want to know what I need to do to remove that highly reflective sheen that is in this test image. Note that I’ve tried using roughness and fresnel to remove it, as well as mixing a glossy shader, and it’s had no effect. I want to remove that bright white sheen on the sides of the image. My nodes for the water is pretty basic, (see attached).

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I think your material is behaving correctly, it’s your lighting/environment you need to look at. The water is only reflecting what you have around it.

If you want to fudge it, you could of course just use a plain refraction shader on the sides of your water. This wont reflect anything, but will still refract like water (assuming you set the same IOR)

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Thanks for your feedback. I actually worked on reducing light strength and positioning which seem to resolve the problem.