Creating a Quick Frosted Glass material

Materials v2.0, Thea for Rhino v2.0, Thea for SketchUp v2.0

The Quick Frosted Glass material is a mixture of Glass, Basic and Coating layers. The result of course is not the same as using only a Glass Layer but it could save you lots of render time in many cases.

Creating the Glass Layer

Create a Glass layer
Remove Roughness by setting it to 0%
Remove Reflections
- Click on the humburger icon and check Reflections
- Set the Reflection color to black.

Creating the Basic Layer

Create a Basic Layer and move it on top of the Glass Layer.
Set the color to White (RGB: 220,220,220)
Adjust the layer weight to a value other than 100% (e.g. 20%)

Adding a Coating Layer

Create a Coating Layer
Adjust the roughness of the reflections based on the look you are after.