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The material has two main components: reflection and refraction. Each of these components has it's own roughness and index of refraction. This might appear counter-intuitive but it allows to simulate a variety of interesting surfaces as shown in the parameter description below. As a supplement to these two components, 3Delight Glass can simulate an additional thin film on the top of the surface. This thin film helps simulate real life surfaces such as tainted glass, oxidation and very thin materials.
Color
Specifies the color for reflections.
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Film IOR
Sets the index of refraction of the thin film. This value depends on the material of which the thin film is made. Even if specific index of refractions are needed to simulate real life phenomena (e.g. use an index of refraction of 1.458 for the thin film of silicon dioxide formed on glass because of thermal oxidation) one can simply adjust this value to obtain the desired look.
Color
Sets the color of the refraction.Setting this color to 0 disables refraction. See comments in reflection color for further information.
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It is impossible for real world materials to have different IOR for reflection and refraction. It is useful in a context where 3D objects are not modeled properly. A good example is a soap bubble: the walls of the bubble are so thin that they are usually modeled using a single surface. In this case the IOR for refraction has to be set to 1 to simulate such a thin medium but the reflection could be set to a value higher than 1. |
Density
Specifies how dense the material is.
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Color | Roughness | Transmittance | Density | .*  Image Removed
*Along with the transmittance above, the physical absorption of the material is calculated as such: physical absorption = density * (1-transmittance). IOR | Incandescence |
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| Color | The colour the incandescence. | | Incandescence intensity | The intensity of the incandescence. 
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Lookdev Example: Marbles
We will try to approximate the look of this marble.
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| The marble is made of glass and has both reflection and refractions (transparent). | We choose an IOR of 1.3 ("light" glass) for both reflection and refraction and dial in the same color for both effects. | | | We have and overall bluish color. Note that some part of the marble are still white (reflection of sky). | We definitely need a blue color for the "interior" of the marble. But which parameter to use, Refraction Color or Transmittance ? Since the inside of the marble is solid, Transmittance is the best choice because it will simulate an exponential light falloff. Transmittance = blue with a strength of 2.3
Refraction Color = leave white |  | | The interior of the ball is "fuzzy" while the reflections are mirror-like. | We can simulate such fuziness by using a Refraction Roughness larger than 0. Reflection Roughness = 0
Refraction Roughness = 0.15 |  | | There is a pink gradient on top of the sphere. This effect is recognizable as thin-film interference. In this case the marble must have some kind of very thin cover or has been heated and an oxide must have formed. | Simply enable thin-film interference and try to guess the IOR of the thin-film. As an educated guess, we set the IOR to 1.458 which is the index of refraction of silicon dioxide, a material that forms when glass is heated. Not surprisingly, we get a close enough match. Film Thickness = 0.25 ucm
Film IOR = 1.458
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So we have a render that has many of the features of the original image. To continue the look development, one can use better lighting, internal object structure (air pockets) and varying thin-film thickness. |
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