i’m trying to find a way to get realistic looking glass effect (transparent but with highlights and refelctions) on some 3D text. any ideas at all? i’ve seen numerous tut’s on glass balls, but nothing for sharp edged shapes such as text…
Try a light color of blue on your text, feather the edges about 10 to 20 pixels and delete the interior, play with the opacity a bit and then run a chrome filter on it. Never really tried this on 3d text though? Might need to adjust your selections before you feather.
Sort of an example but not with text:
that sounds like a good place to start. i don’t have time till tomorrow to try it properly but will let you know how it goes! thx so much : )
There are millions of glass text tutorials out there on the web. For example:
http://www.good-tutorials.com/search.php?q=glass&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
http://www.thewebmachine.com/ (browse the left until you find Glass Pill Button)
etc…
ditchhopper, i have tried your idea and it kinda works, at least on 2D so far…
i will keep experimenting. thankyou very much.
and Voetsjoeba, thanks for your input, they are all good tut’s some of which i have seen b4, but none of them refer to 3D…but thankyou
