Mirror effect
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| Hi Folks..me again..can anyone help me with CreateMirror command? Problem is that I dont know how to apply this command on some objects on my scene what i want to be reflective. As I can see from tutorials, its always connected with create plane command, but there is no sample how to do that with object of my choice..in my case i wanna make reflective top side of desk on my scene, and few similar objects, including few different types of floor but on same Y position. how to fix this? Anyone can help? |
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| I'm not totally up on the subject but CreateMirror may not be what you want. First of all, I think it doubles the polycount of everything in the scene, and secondly, I think it can only be on one plane. Maybe you should look into cube-mapping. |
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| Have a go with this thing I did quite a while back: www.hi-toro.com/blitz/realmirrors.zip [165K] See ya, -- James L Boyd, Blitz Basic Support. The Pixies are alive! Death to the Pixies! -- Beta test specs: XP/DX9.0b; AMD XP2600; Radeon 9800. OS X 10.3.3; Radeon 9200; PPC G4 @ 1.25GHz. -- |
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| What's this ^^^ ?? Puki or JLB ??? |
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| ??? eh! Puki and Boyd have fused together :O |
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| Eko - The CreateMirror creates a flat plane floor to mirror your scene. The mirror image is created by rendering the whole scene from a different, reflected view . This doubles polygon count. To have mirrored object working this way would be EXTREMELY costly, every surface of every object needing a seperate rendering. What you want just isn't done in computer games. Instead games use a workaround with sphere/cube mapped environment images that give the impression of a reflective surface, such as shown in the Teapot demo. By using the right textures you can give the impression of reflective chrome etc. |
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| Oh, wait, "Puki" just reposted one of my posts. Don't do that, "Puki"... I'm easily confused. Thought I'd had one too many last night. |
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| Thanks Shifty..I'mfigured out that createmirror is not something whats smart to do...already try your way, and its working well..thanks a lot.. |
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