I've searched this forum for a clear plastic shader, and found only one thread on the topic with no responses.

I'd like to be able to render transparent plastic, such as a vinyl shower curtain, or a sandwich baggie.  Or clothes.  Whatever.  I wouldn't balk at transparent plastic clothing.  :lol: 

When I've tried to devise a shader for this in the past, it hasn't looked right.  The specific levels of transparency, falloff, and surface shine seem to be hard to capture.  Possibly part of the problem is how Poser handles transparency.  Whenever the back side of the clear plastic object is visible through the transparent front, it looks really pretty bad, actually, on any clumsy shader I've tried.

Does anyone know how to approach this material well?  As far as I can tell from looking at real life objects, the reflectivity is low, as well as the refractivity.  But I really don't understand these things at all, at all.  :sad:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.