How do I get 3D materials to show translucent glass materials?

[littlemisssunshine01278]

I am trying to create a product component in Illustrator using 3d materials and its coming out fine, I added in the tinted glass material, because on the adobe website it said it would be translucent. However when I apply it to my artwork it is completely solid. How do I keep the transparency ?

[Mylenium]

Not sure what you are saying. The material looks seriously opaque and not anywhere like real glass. You would have to find a different material/ tweak the parameters.

Mylenium

[Monika Gause]

Did you turn on Raytracing for rendering this on your artboard?

[Ton Frederiks]

I don't think transparency is supported in the "new" 3D effect.

[Monika Gause]

Some sort of transparency must be supported, because there is this:

[Ton Frederiks]

Yes, sort of. Looks more like a mistake.

[Bobby Henderson]

That looks like a military desert camouflage texture, but with some holes knocked through it.

[Monika Gause]

Yes, that's what it is. But it needs to be achieved via transparency. So maybe it's translucency that Illustrator's 3D and material cannot do. But Raytracing should support that as well.

[Ton Frederiks]

Maybe this hard single color 8 bit like transparancy is supported, but not the 256 steps alpha channel one. like in the Classic version.

[Ares Hovhannesyan · Accepted solution]

Translucency

The amount of light able to transmit through the surface. It must be the property of material that you have applied. Here it looks in Stager for Glass

https://helpx.adobe.com/substance-3d-sampler/features-and-workflows/adobe-standard-material.html#:~:....

Try to change fill opacity as in image below.  It become transparent or mimic translucency