This .blend file should match Figure 7-13, illustrating that material indices also work for objects that aren’t meshes. This is really nice for things like text, in my opinion.

Files:

• material-indices.blend

The objects in this scene are using both raytraced transparency as well as raytraced reflection. The difference, though, if you render it out is that the materials are set to have a blurry transparency. This is adjusted with the Gloss values in the Mirror Transp panel. There’s one for both raytraced reflection as well as raytraced transparency.

Just know that this will like give you very long render times. If you have an old computer, you may want to go grab a cup of coffee when you render this.

Files:

• glossy.blend

As the example in the book showed, you can create a material index for each of the colors on this beach ball. Once you have all your indices created, you can apply a different material to each one, getting you something that hopefully looks like this.

Try to make something that matches this.

Files:

• beachball.blend