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  • How to create shadow + refection in single plane ?

    Posted by Alex Anderson on March 29, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    Hello All,

    i have this below render, where there is lava ball on tracked floor , now its easy to create shadow but how to create lava heat reflection [like glowing object on floor,which reflects glow] along with shadow or in this case with tracked floor ?

    check base of the lava ball , the floor should be glowing with heat emitted from lava ball

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    Steve Bentley replied 8 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Justin Thomson

    March 29, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    Will you compositing it?

  • Alex Anderson

    March 29, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    yes, im tracking a video and placing object in it. just wanted to know is it possible to cast the lava texture on floor along with shadow

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  • Steve Bentley

    March 29, 2018 at 8:12 pm

    You can put a texture on a light to “project” the image on a surface – the texture goes in the transparency channel.
    You can also render with GI and that will take the “light” from the texture and project that on the floor.

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