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Creating a glass window

Creating a glass window

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Creating a glass window

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I aam trying to add a window to the model to match the picture and im not sure how to do that and make it see through. so that there is a window to see the grain

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You talking about the little square windows inside that top opening? You are just going to have to model them in. Not really sure we could talk you though that effectively. Depending on your current geometry, you could model them in pretty quickly.

 

For the "see though" that you want you could just add transparency to the texture you use on that modeled window.

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To get the little square windows i can just insert some edge loop tool and then it should work i think, then how would I add the transparency texture
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Maya textures (like Lambert, Phong, Blinn etc...)  have the transparency attribute. Just adjust the slider of the transparency so you can semi see through it. You should have the "glass" part a seperate geometry and you just add a new texture to it and adjust the transparency. You can assign the texture to faces if you dont want to have the glass seperate geo but it is better to have things seperated. This tranparency thing is fine for view port viewing, but if you render you will need to have as glass texture worked out properly.

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what do i need to do then to have the texture worked out properly
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ive got the holes for the window so do I create a new shape and make it trans parent

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And when i use the bridge tool to make the hole for the windows it does this

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Yeah you cannot bridge like that, and your words do not make sense: "And when i use the bridge tool to make the hole for the windows it does this". Bridging does not "make" a hole. I would suggest you at least youtube some videos on modeling, textures and maybe some specific tools individually like the bridge tool. Bridge tool is used on open edges [usually] to make the connection between two geometries that are combined but seperate or a hole through a solid geometry to fill the gap between faces. Like if you cut a window hole out of GEO that has an interior "wall" and and exterior "wall", you could use bridge to fill the gap between the interior and exterior effectively making the inner frame of the window. To make the glass to fit into those windows you need to have geometry for them. To make geometry for them can happen several ways. You need to decide how you want the window (glass part) to actually be. Do you want a single pane in the middle of the frame? do you want double pane? If dual pane do you want each pane to be flush with the inner and outer "walls"? Your reference pictures might dictate this, I cannot tell. But ONE way to make the "glass" is before you bridge the inner and outer surface, you select one of the full edges of the window and "Fill Hole", then select that face it created and extract it (or seperate). This gives you the individual glass pane and it is oriented correctly to the angle of the window hole you have cut out. At this point you might want to scale it up just a tad to hide edges and now can figure out if you want thickness, single pane, dual panes or whatever and place the "glass" where you want/need it. Then apply a texture to it.