• Zaxwerks

  mirrored reflections

  Posted by Kurt Murphy on March 6, 2008 at 10:15 pm

  Is there a way to achieve a true mirrored reflection of an environment with Invigorator? I have the reflection setting at 100, but I’m getting a blurred reflection of my environment on the flat front of my image. I checked some settings, but I didn’t see anything on it.

  I can put the environment on the face of the image, but it just pastes it on and won’t react correctly as the 3D odject turns. I was thinking of distorting and Offsetting it as the 3D object spun, but was hoping there was an easier way.

  Can you achieve a high polished mirror reflection in Invig?

  thanks,

  kurt murphy

  Kurt Murphy replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Serge Hamad

  March 8, 2008 at 12:16 am

  Hi Kurt! Nice to see you around!

  There are two things you must consider when working with reflection maps:

  -To avoid the blurred look your object should have a very dark color. Black works best.

  -To have more control on what is reflected on an object best is to use a comp as a layer map, add your environment to this comp and scale it way down until you see a clear reproduction of your map on your 3D object.

  Does this help or did I misunderstood something?

  Salut,
  Serge

  Invigorator/Proanimator Training: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/hamad_serge/invig_training.php
• 

  Kurt Murphy

  March 8, 2008 at 1:52 am

  Serge,

  <>

  Nope, you got exactly what I meant and once again helped me out completely. I really didn’t see a way to do it and posted it on a whim. Serge, you’re a treasure.

  thank you,

  kurt

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up