Can not get Lee's new refraction face tutorial to work

[lee_griggs]

What is the issue that you are having Louis?

[Anonymous]

The plane does not seem to refract or be transparent at all and following your directions as best I could, the image is always greyscale on the plane

[ashley.handscomb.retallack]

Have you set the transmission up on the plane?
If you are not using the latest Arnold (5.3) you will need to make sure opaque has been unchecked on the plane

[Anonymous]

I had not made the upgrade to 5.3 and I had set the transmission as Lee stated to 0.9. IS it possible that it is not working because of not using the 5.3 GPU version?

[lee_griggs]

Can you upload the scene and I will have a look at it.

[Anonymous]

I will try Lee but that was stopped before when I tried it saying the file was too large and not a jpg or tiff etc

[Anonymous]

I have tried but the system will not let me upload my file, where and how can I do it, it is not a picture file and it is over the size limit for the files in here

[lee_griggs]

You will have to upload it elsewhere like G-Drive, Dropbox etc and post the link here.

[Anonymous]

here is the file

https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Public/Arnoldtexturehead_LeeMale.c4d?role=personal

thanks for looking

[lee_griggs]

You need to select the RenderCam in the Camera attribute of the Camera Projection.

[Anonymous]

Using the file you sent, just loading texture, I only get greyscale with no textures

[lee_griggs]

I don't understand. Did you open a file texture in the image shaders? Here is what I sent you using my texture.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much Lee, got it working with your help...I found it is very particular to the texture you use too

Thanks again