I experimented a little with the refractive properties of glass and made the window from the observation room you may normally encounter in Portal maps. I thought this could be nice to share on the potential of the glass material.
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Woah, that’s really cool. Is the glass shaped in that lined pattern?
Thats amazing, how did you do that?
I exploited the fact that you cannot see other glass parts behind a glass part itself- along with a grouping of rotated lines of glass vertically.
It’s a little part intensive, but take a free model to experiment!
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To an extent, kind of. They look much more like window blinds in a certain angle.
After trying this out for myself I noticed that using cylinders instead of block parts yielded better results.
And so it is- even matches the picture from the game itself better!
(Left side is blocky, right side is with cylinders)
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I’m a huge fan of portal 1-2, and this brings back many memories of me staring at the observation windows wondering who could’ve sat behind them aha.
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I’ve actually managed to get a similar effect, although I should resize each of the cylinders to get a closer look to the actual window.
That’s really cool! Bigger cylinders seem to work even better than what I had it seems.
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Smaller cylinder time!
EDIT:
here it is!
Also, even my smallest cylinder window is only 37 parts without unions.
Rad design!