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glenlake

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Could anyone help me to understand how the "Transparency" section works?

I want to get my glass naterial to reflect a jpeg image. I found a slot for an image only  in the "Transparency" seciton. I probably misunderstand it, but I thought it might be under the "Reflectivity".

I selected an image, played with the Transparency Amount, Image Fade, Reflectivity etc., but did not get the image reflected in the glass.

Usually in Revit everything is simple, but here I  am really puzzled. Please help.

Please tell me what i do wrong. 

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Typhoon

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How is in the real world? 

Put your "image" in FRONT the glass.

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glenlake

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Thank you very much for your reply. You showed me the direction to go.

So, you mean just to use an image (of a street, landscape or sky) as any material texture (e.g. brisk or wood)?

I tried this with Tile/ Non tile alignment of the image, changing its size, offset etc. Still do not have a slightest appearance of a sky reflection.

Could you please kindly give me a link to some manual or instruction how to do it?

And what is the purpose of the “Image” section in the “Transparency” property of a material?

Thanks again.

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Similar thread: http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=17085

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glenlake

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Thank you again.

I see, it is  a really difficult thing to find out how to reflect a steert. Can't find a tip anywhere.

I used to put a wall with an image somewhere near the glass, and it was reflected in all windows. But the problem is that this wall blocks the sunlight!

When I use a sky or landscape inage for the FACE of the glass, a tiling problem appears, for the sky image with its clouds is not seamless.

And there should be some reason for which they put an "Image" section in the material Transparency peoperty.

If you find this out, please let me know. I can't figure this out.

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