How to generate translucent plastic with TMesh2Rad

Dear Sir,

I was wondering how you would create a translucent smooth surface that will respond well to the triangle smoothing of TMesh2Rad.

I have tried Trans, Trans2 without success, and have found very little documentation on transfunc, which I believe is the correct way to approach this problem.

Thank you for your time,
Yours truly,
Ling Xiao

Hi Ling,

The smoothing functions of tmesh2rad and gensurf should work adequately with all material types, including trans and trans2. Prior to the 3.5 official release, there was a bug in the code that caused the surfaces to look wrong when viewed from the backside, but this was fixed about a year ago. If you are using Desktop Radiance or an older release of the software, this could be your problem.

-Greg

From: "Ling Xiao" <[email protected]>
Date: February 23, 2004 11:09:37 PM PST

Dear Sir,

I was wondering how you would create a translucent smooth surface that will respond well to the triangle smoothing of TMesh2Rad.

I have tried Trans, Trans2 without success, and have found very little documentation on transfunc, which I believe is the correct way to approach this problem.

Thank you for your time,
Yours truly,
Ling Xiao