Problems modeling Icecubes in a glass

[gabriel-mdini]

hi,Im new to to 3ds max.
And now Im trying to model a glass with soda and I what to have icecubs in it.
I have modeled a glass with water, and now i run into my first problem; the icecubs iv puted in the waterobject are black, not transparent as iv cofigurated them to be. when I hide the glassobject so i only i have the icecube and the waterobject left in screen. And render the icetube is transparent again. So I wonder how I can make the icecube transparent with the glass around it?

Thanks for answers

[joojaa]

Make the maximum trace depth deeper.

[gabriel-mdini]

I`v now changed the trace depth of reflection and refraction to 20 (max) but i still have the same problem when i render?

[gabriel-mdini]

the icecube is good with only the glass around or only the waterobject around but with both it`s black again

[joojaa]

this setting resides in 3 places. Once for the shader and once in the render globals you need them both set! the lower of the 2 takes precedence. Then any shadow tracing, ie your light also needs a deeper depth max for shadows.

But yes thats clarly the problem, because takeing one surface off makes the rpoblem go away.

[yiwanheyi-yiwanheyi]

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