Glass problems...

Support Materials and Textures
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HI, sorry for another probably stupid question.

I am trying to model a pyramid with a glass walkway-like thing around it (don’t ask why), but I am having issues with the glass… it just looks wrong:

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/51/glasserrorqd4.jpg

I know from 3ds max these errors can happen from having a glass face exist at the same point as a normal face, so I moved the glass box up by 0.001. It changed it (before it was static-like), but still didn’t FIX it.

I think it’s because the glass and the pyramid overlap (the box is just overlaid on the pyramid), but in 3ds I would use a boolean to fix that, here it doesn’t seem to have any effect.

Here’s a pic of the wire frame: http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/8264/wireyo8.jpg

How can I fix this? And is there a more logical way to deal with the “2 faces at one point” syndrome?

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It’s really hard to judge how glass looks if it the only things you see through it have flat colors, for all I know it could be fine. You may also want to light the scene with HDRI to give the glass something to reflect.

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Agh, I just realized my problem, I had 2 glass boxes and they were refracting each other in odd ways. Oops. :o