Stained glass material settings in Blender internal?

Artistic Support Materials and Textures
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So, I have this church I am building, and I’d like a simple stained glass window for it.

  1. do I have to make it out of a cube, or can I use a plane?
  2. I’d just like RGB and Y triangles in it, so I made a plane with such faces, but getting them to pass light with color hasn’t succeeded yet. Any settings I should be aware of?

Many thanks again,

Usenetfan - fan of this forum

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Have you tried making the materal of those transparent faces translucent?

3

To get coloured glass you need to increase the Filter value in the Raytrace Transparency settings

4

I tried to increase that for the red, but I must have some other setting askew.

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For the background plane you need to set it to receive transparent shadows, In its material / Shadow settings, enable ‘Receive Transparent’

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Oh man. I’ve heard of that but never used. Thanks again!

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Hey by the way - where is that setting in Cycles? I’ve tried to get a Fresnel lens to work but to no avail.