How To Create Frosted Glass?

[mettam]

Hi,
I thought this would be a straight forward shader to make but is turning out not to be.
Can someone tell me the easiest way to create a frosted shader.

I basically want to be able to blur the image seen through the object.

Thank you.

[user_deleted]

Hi i downloaded the true glass shader then added a custom phong to it's colour and brownian bumped it and came up with this:

tweaked it a bit to this:

brought down the lights to get more specular highlights and brought one of the spheres closer to see if it was easier to make out:

it may need a lot of tweaking depending on your lights and stuff, basically messing with the bump map itself (doesn't have to be brownian could be image or fractal etc) which does all the work here, and maybe bump depth and transparency so nothing too major. i've hosted the mb as well so you can have it to check render settings and whatnot.

glass1.mb

ps mr only as it needs photons etc and it isn't quick to render (640x480 4mins/frame on dual 3ghz xeons!!)

Hope this is a start!

Sam

[mettam]

Thanks for replying vexfilm.
I also found an easier way to create the frosted galss look just by using Maya's PhongE shader turn on raytracing and refraction atributes play around with refraction blur and the samples and I got a pretty good result.
It really shouldnt be that hard to create but Maya makes you dig for it.
So all those people downloading 3rd party plugins to make this effect work you dont need to because the capability is in Maya's standard shaders.

Justin .

[joojaa]

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So all those people downloading 3rd party plugins to make this effect work you dont need to because the capability is in Maya's standard shaders.

Yes but allmost half of every utility node yd reaklly want to use are missing form maya.