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I'm trying to render a glassy flac. The problem is, taht it makes black reflections on sides or corners. I don't know where these reflections come from, almost white world and in the example the flac is in white cube and still there is black left side.

What can I do to get rid of these black spots?

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    $\begingroup$ I think this is not reflections, but due to refraction! What value did you set for the "IOR" value of the glass shader? I suggest you to try with a value closer 1.0. $\endgroup$ – Polosson Sep 25 '14 at 10:21
  • $\begingroup$ I used 1.51714 as suggested here link. When I get to 1.2 it's almost gone, but also some of desired details disappear. $\endgroup$ – Magorr Sep 25 '14 at 10:48
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    $\begingroup$ blender.stackexchange.com/questions/2558/… $\endgroup$ – Omar Emara Sep 25 '14 at 11:29
  • $\begingroup$ These are probably shadows from the light. The only way I've found to get rid of this is to disable them. $\endgroup$ – MarcClintDion Sep 25 '14 at 17:04
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    $\begingroup$ Looks to me like a combination of total internal reflection and not enough transmission bounces. Note that this is in someways correct, as if light bounces around inside a piece of glass far enough, it will be absorbed pretty much completely. See e.g. these images $\endgroup$ – gandalf3♦ Sep 25 '14 at 17:10
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In the render properties for cycle find the Light Paths and increase the Transmission value till the dark spots go away.

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I had the same issue and found it was due to my glass being shaded smooth. I added an Edge Split modifier and the black areas of refraction went away.

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