Transparent material properties

Summary

Created: Jan 14 2024 by manavortex Last documented update: Jan 14 2024 by manavortex

This page documents glass shaders and their properties.

• For an overview of glass shaders, see Cheat sheet: Materials-> Glass

• For an explanation of material properties and further links, see Material properties

To turn on material transparency, the EnableMask property must be set to True!

Glass

Cyberpunk's glass material, such as base\materials\glass_onesided.mt

All glass materials can consider the vertex color attribute, which you can edit directly in Blender.

Opacity	float, 0.0 - 1.0: Controls glass transparency.
GlassTint	A texture to tint your glass. (TBD: Does it work as a mask?)
TintColor	Glass tint as RGB (copy from e.g. mi_neokitsch_fridge_z_emissive.mi).
IOR	Index of refraction as float, 1.0-2.0: The refraction properties of your material. (Water > glass > air)
Refraction Depth	float 0.0-10.0: Control refraction depth here. You can turn your ray into a curve that way!
FresnelBias	float, 0.0 - 2.0: How much does the glass behave like a lens (that is, warp the picture behind it)?
BlurRadius	float, 0.0 - 1.0: Blur amount when looking through the glass
VertexColorTint	float, 0.0 - 1.0: Transparency of vertex colour tint

Find a ready-to-use bottle glass .mi here.

Non-warping glass

For a glass material without view distortion and warping, use base\vehicles\common\materials\glass_windshield_tinted_black.mi

Opacity/OpacityBackFace	float, 0.0 - 5.0: Controls glass transparency. OpacityBackFace will only affect inside-facing normals.
FrontFacesReflectionPower / BackFacesReflectionPower	float, 0.0-10.0: How strongly should the glass reflect?
TintColor/TintSurface	Surface and refraction color as RGB (copy from e.g. mi_neokitsch_fridge_z_emissive.mi).

Find a ready-to use glass .mi file here

Half-transparent glass

base\environment\decoration\electronics\devices\device_neokitsch\textures\device_neokitsch_glass_black.mi

Device screen glass

base\fx\shaders\parallaxscreen.mt

ParalaxTexture	Texture that your screen should display, e.g. base\materials\placeholder\black.xbm
LayersSeparation	1
ScanlinesIntensity	0
ScanlinesDensity	0
Emissive	0
Roughness	0.200000003
Metalness	0

Find a ready-to-use example of a turned-off screen here.

Note: tinting glass

• There are a number of ways you can colorize your glass. GlassTint is the texture used to determine glass color. TintColor is procedural color. TintFromVertexPaint value determines how much vertex color affects the glass color. GlassTint seemingly has the highest priority, as in it will override other color parameters. Below is a test result from the process of making a glass wing.

How glass color is affected by different parameters

Example materials

Transparent plastic

You can tweak the parameters to your heart's content

Download the .mi file here

Parameter name	Value
baseMaterial	base\materials\glass_onesided.mt
TintColor	white (220, 220, 220, 0)
IOR	0.100000001
NormalStrength	5.74905014
Roughness	base\materials\placeholder\black.xbm
GlassRoughnessBias	0
BlurRadius	1

See-through cloth

You can see the material in action on mana's Barong Tagalog mod, or download the .mi file from the resource repository

Property	Value
baseMaterial	base\materials\glass_onesided.mt
enableMask	true
TintColor	RGB	colours the material
IOR	0.300000012	Index of refraction
Opacity	1	the material's transparency will be determined by the mask texture
NormalStrength	2.74905014
MaskTexture	texture (black/white)	black parts of the mask will not be affected by this material
Roughness	texture (black/white)	use base\materials\placeholder\white.xbm for maximum roughness
Normal	texture (normal map)	path\to\your\normal_n01.xbm
GlassRoughnessBias	0	???
MaskOpacity	0.629999995	0 - 1, controls glass opacity
BlurRadius	0	will blur the things behind the glass