Those are all really good ides. i think ill try the cylinder of air with SSS first. thanks a bunch for the suggestions.

I was just wondering if there was a way to make a halo in indigo. I was hoping for something close to a lightsaber. Is there possibly a way to blend two materials, one that is an emitter and one that is transparent? And if so, is there a way to soften the edge?

actually never mind that last post. I forgot that i had the light in the lamp turned on.

I really appreciate all the help that you guys gave me.

Ok so the the problem with the liquid rendering black is fixed. It doesn't turn out horrible, but now i can't seem to get the liquid to be the right color. It keeps turning out purple when it should be blue. I tried to change the SSS to be the color that i wanted instead of uniform but it turned out...

Actually i think i might have figured it out. I did 2 things, i made that glass thicker, and i set the glass precedence up to 10 and kept the liquid at 5. I'm pretty sure it was the precedence that made the difference.

I am rendering an image right now and ill see how it turns out.

The glass is 6 millimeters thick. that is if the measurements in blender are in meters. the edges length said 0.006.

I don't know. i don't know how to do measurements in blender. how would i find that out?

It is hard to see in the first image of the meshes. But I did model the glass as with two layers. the thickness of the glass is pretty much even all the way around until you get to the bottom, which is thicker. The liquid is about half way between the layers of the glass mesh. And i made sure that a...

And here are the material settings.

I have checked rechecked and triple check the normals every time I try a render just to be sure, so I know it isn't the normals. and I set the precedence of the glass and liquid to what i found in some of the preset materials in the database. So I'm pretty sure it isn't that either.

Hi everyone. I am fairly new when it comes to using Indigo. I recently decided to make of model the lava lamp that i have in my room. the glass and everything turned out fine but i ran into a problem when it came to the liquid inside of the glass bottle. Every time that i try I to render the liquid ...