I'm trying to render a glass object, so I can composite it afterward with Photoshop (or the like).

I applied houdini's default glass shader to the object and I rendered it out… however, the glass appears to be pure black. Does anyone know how I can have the glass render the opacity/translucency?

like this

http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/12291-raytracing-and-alpha-question/page__fromsearch__1 [forums.odforce.net]


or like this
http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/12852-fluid-alpha-query/page__fromsearch__1 [forums.odforce.net]


gl dude

found it! it's more of like this:
http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=5792 [forums.odforce.net]

…apparently, I need to use the “vex glass” shader.