Glass material with soft shadows (cycles)

[buczech]

Hello there, is that somehow possible to make one glass material without need to make separate render layers?

Image is showing how i want the glass to look like, yet the shadows, it casts, are too hard (same if it was purely diffuse shader). The pannel [x] with softer shadow is just mixed diffuse and transparent shader.

Here are correct shadows but, glass itself looks too much “diffusish” (mixed with panel’s X sahder by shadow ray light path)

And here is node tree

[RickyBlender]

shadows are defined by the type & size of the light sources

Happy cl

[burnin]

Change Translucent node for Transparent, remove Blue Diffuse, give color to Volume…

[HelloHiHola]

buczech How did the changes suggested work out for you? I’m bothered by the same thing.

[TheTuxedo]

If you’re using a glass shader, the light that passes through it will be considered a refraction caustic. I’m willing to bet you’ve disabled caustics.