SPACESHIP WINDSHIELD HELP

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For a spaceship i am making i need a windshield that is transparent. how do i make a part of the ship transparent for the windshield so that it resembles glass?

thanks

2

You give it its own material:

http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/ch10s07.html

Make that material Raytraceable in the RayMirror tab in F5, turn on RayTransp in Shaders tab drop the Alpha in the Material tab, and turn on Ray in the Render tab in F10

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