Transparent glass rendering issues

[SomeLoverForRoblox (PopA_Vein)]

Glass is a unique part material in Roblox Studio. When you slide the transparency on a glass part it can filter colors with this bleary water effect on it, which is what I like. But glass is almost useless because of these rendering issues:

Both of these parts are the same size. But the implemented feature which makes any other transparent part, decal/texture, terrain water, and billboard gui unrendered is just slightly infuriating.

Same thing but with glass and water terrain.

So I went to the new Material Service and thought to edit the glass material, wow. Glass is a hidden option…

According to this post: [Introducing New Material: Glass], this feature is intended to put less impact on performance. While that’s understandable, is it really necessary? The fact that you can’t make a glass window with terrain water lake in the background just ruins basic showcase building. Do you think this will change in the future?

[RMofSBI]

There is a work around, but you might not prefer it: if you change your graphics quality to medium (half way or lower) in the game settings, the glass will render the water behind it.

[SomeLoverForRoblox (PopA_Vein)]

Yes this technically a work around for terrain water because the water loses it’s transparency. Everything else such as transparent parts, billboard guis, particles, beams are still invisible.

[gluGPU (Glu)]

Easiest way to get around this is w/ a transparent smooth plastic part. You lose glass refraction (Which is what causes this issue) along with the color filtering, but it’s better than nothing. You can also use a surface appearance object under ur object with a black roughness map instead to make it more reflective