Hi everyone!
New to this forum, but I’ve run into a slight “problem”. I have a customer that wants their logo animated. Part of this logo is a cube, and I have a difficulty recreating it’s look in 3ds max. It’s created in Adobe illustrator, so it’s material and transparent effect is kinda faked in illustrator. I have attached an image showing how the cube looks in the logo. Can anyone help me with getting the right effect? Materials/lighting… Any help will be greatly appreciated :-)

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You can set the level of transparency in the Material Editor.  Be sure to also check “2-sided”.  Then just play with the lighting.

Bruce Hammond
e-nimation.com
Peterborough, NH USA

Max8-32 SP3, Max9-32 SP2, WinXP

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Yeah, that’s what I ended up doing, but thanks anyway:-) Realized I wasn’t going to be able to make it look exactly like in illustrator. But it ended up looking more like the one on their homepage (gronnboks.no), so I hope it won’t matter much.

Try this:

* Create the box apply material with opacity from 30 to 50 (try this for the desired result) and 2-sided on
* Give shell modifier to the box, “inner amount 0.0” & “outer amount 0.1”
* Then place a light in front of the box with shadows off.

This is my result:

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Thanks for the tip! Last night I saw a TV ad for the company, and in it there was used a camferbox and also clouds was reflected on it. In other words a lot different from what I initially was going for, so I made mine like that aswell and sent some testrenders to the customer. Anyway, enough ranter, thanks again!