K_LiquidGlass

K_LiquidGlass applies a Liquid Glass or frosted-glass treatment to the composited image entering the effect and blends the result inside a generated or matte-driven glass region.

It is designed primarily for adjustment-layer workflows, with blur, refraction, chromatic shifting, glass tinting, edge highlights and optional NVIDIA CUDA acceleration.

PLATFORM

• Windows only.
• Adobe After Effects .aex plugin.
• NVIDIA CUDA only for GPU rendering.

TESTED ENVIRONMENT

• Adobe After Effects 2025.
• 8 bpc, 16 bpc and 32 bpc float.

VERSION COMPATIBILITY

• Tested with After Effects 2025.
• Other After Effects versions may be compatible but are not verified.

MAIN FEATURES

• Liquid Glass and frosted-glass effects.
• Background blur, refraction and chromatic shifting.
• Glass tint and edge-highlight controls.
• Custom rounded-rectangle glass regions.
• Alpha-matte-driven glass regions.

RENDERING BACKENDS

• CPU renderer.
• CUDA renderer.

The Renderer setting can be Auto, GPU or CPU. CUDA rendering requires an NVIDIA GPU and a 32 bpc float context. If CUDA is unavailable, the plugin falls back to CPU rendering.

NOTES

• The effect is designed primarily for use on adjustment layers.
• Pixels outside the active glass region preserve the original input image.
• GPU acceleration is CUDA-only. DirectX, Metal, OpenCL and non-NVIDIA GPU paths are not implemented.