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Creating a reflective surface
I’m working with Invogorator for 3D text animation. I created a plane (in inv.) for below my text (black) that is supposed to reflect the text above it. Couldn’t get it to work.
Next, I tried to create the plane in a 3D layer in AE, but was wondering if there is a way to make the plane in the 3D layer in AE reflective??? To reflect the text from INV.
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Take a quick run through these two tutorials created by the wonderful masterminds here at creativecow, I think they will answer most of your questions!
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/reflections.php
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/okerstrom_jon/reflections.php
Andrew Kramer lays down the basics in the first tutorial, and Jon Okerstrom does an excellent job expanding it to include Invigorator.
Hope it helps!
Brian Lynn -
I could be wrong but I don’t think Invigorator inherently can support true 3d reflectivity. Unlike a heavy weight 3d program there is no genuine raytracing where objects reflect each other in 3d space.
One way or the other — you gotta fake it.
Keep in mind–the programs that CAN do Raytracing usually take forever to render it out.
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Yeah, after a full day of total frustration, I said to hell with it and modeled it in max and I was off and running. Invig works great for some things, but forget the reflections. The whole camera thing was too much.
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