shem

Mark,

Since I don't have a glass sphere, I whipped this up in Cinema to validate your observations. I cranked the refraction up to 4 and DOH! You're right! I can just slightly make out the "spherical" effect but then I suspect that the refraction for a shere might be realistically higher than 4 (it's as high as Cimena would allow). Transparency at 21% brightness.

Rich

markzebra

Thought I'd give it another shot ??although it gets quite far away from the original technique. The idea I was taking the marbling a bit further??

Blinky2004

Good idea Rich, i do that sometimes too to validate an idea.

Mark, that's not so far off. Great relfection results with the windows. and i think i see a room of some kind in there too. That looks very realistic now.

Ya and the marbling effect looks better now too, behind the relfections. Great job. [righton]

One thing to take note of though is the floor surface... if that is indeed suposed to BE a floor -- could be a wall too. If it's a floor, it should appear to be lying on more of a flat angle from the apparent viewing angle of the image. Just need to apply the Perspective tool to it.

Guys... don't ever be afraid to "lose" the details of a texture if it's a trade-off for more realisim. In the real world, you wouldn't see detail in that floor texture either. But that's ok... because it's real. If you really want to show off your good textures in your images, then create other objects in the image to apply them to.

jpfitness

markzebra I just love that marble! it is fantastic [righton]
well done
sfm

shem

Yeah! I'm diggin' that marble too. Nice work![righton]

Rich

Really nice one Markzebra [righton]

gymmie

REALLY like your marble, Markzebra!

Here's my first try at a glass ball: (Can you tell I like purple?)

That's a nice one Julie and finally someone who uses purple, because what's wrong with purple? [confused].
You made sure that it really looks like glass [righton]

markzebra

Nice one - and a very tasteful shade of purple it is too [righton]

Thanks for the words of encouragement folks - still not quite there yet with my marble. Just realised ? don't think marbles are transparent! [bustagut]

You know, I really don't care! [bustagut] [bustagut]
Just one beautiful ball