Headlight glass question

[DeathstarRS]

Hello
Im quite new to blender so im still gettin used to the basics. I've been playing about with glass today but ive came acroos something i cant figure out. If you look at the attach ments. The one on the left is a box with one side made of glass. Now onto what i cant figure out. the light doesnt show up on the wall of the box i put around the whole thing(thts the second pic). I tried it with a spot light. It lights up the wall(the 3rd pic)but not the glass.

The reason i am wandering this is for lights on a car. I am doing a scene at dusk and would like the lights on. But i cant get them to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers Deathstar

[Unicorn]

Just a couple of longshots

did you set alpha on the the material colour
or reverse did you set alpha and not transparency
you may have to up samples on the transparency tab - eventhough for this simple sepup this seems unlikely

[DeathstarRS]

i still cant get it workin
If its any help i used this tut(only the glass bit obv)
Nystic 2.0 • View topic - [Tutorial] Textures Glass, Chrome, Gold, Brushed Alloy

[Unicorn]

I just tried to make 3 cubes each with a light inside all lined up in front of a wall

1 with transparency on
1 with alpha 0
and
1 with both

one the last one the light showed up on the corners of the cube, didn't light the wall I had put behind.

On a whim I tried to switch on "Trashado" and viola the third cube worked as supposed.

It on the shaders thingy(on the shaders tab not the mirror transp tab), there are some buttons.

I enclose the .blend and a render. For some reason .blend is not an allowed filetype so it in a .zip

Hope it helps.

[NightEye]

I'll edit the upload permissions so you can upload .blend in the future

[Unicorn]

Thanks - speedy service, I am impressed both by the general level on the board and that of the mods (just swithing between forum now, and some have really bad maturity issues so I just needed that off my chest)

[NightEye]

Thank you, I'm glad to hear that. We try to keep this place a second home for all modelers

[DeathstarRS]

cheer unicorn. You helped me out alot. Now i also understand how to do it cos i was not able to find stuff where all the buttons where before.

[Dr.Pain[+]]

Thank you I was looking at this last night and could not figure out why the hell it doesn't show whats behind it.