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I try to achieve that my lightrays are going through glass. With a volumetric container and without a glass in front of the light everything works fine. enter image description here But if I make my glass visible the lightrays disappear.

So I searched a little bit and found this question. I tried it but with this technic I have the problem that it affects the color of the button light. Additionally I was not able to get the nice fade out effect from the question above. I think its because my cylinder has a hole and is not filled like in the example.

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So how can I do this without (or at least only a little bit) affecting the lightcolor of my button and with a glass infront of the light of the button?

Is it possible to get the result from the firt picture but with a glass infront of the light source?

Here is my blendfile.

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The glass shader by itself won't let light pass through it the way you want. You need to modify the material by adding some transparency controlled with a light path node.

For more detail please read: How to illuminate the darkness inside glass objects in Cycles?

The volumetric light you can do just by adding some volume scattering to the world. enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ Yes this is what I needed! Thank you. Why do you use additionally to the glass node a transparency node? $\endgroup$
    – theoretisch
    Dec 2, 2016 at 12:56
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    $\begingroup$ Please read the link on the answer. $\endgroup$
    – user1853
    Dec 2, 2016 at 12:57

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