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Layer light transmission – but as if onto a glossy obsidian surface
Like the subject says, I’m trying to get a “reflection” look onto a black solid layer, as if it were made of a shiny gloss black material. Shining a light thru a layer with tranmission enabled, but no matter how I set all the various parameters, if the solid layer is set to pure black, I get no transmission shadow-cast. It only works if the layer is set to something other than ppure black. But that defeats the “limbo” look I’m striving for. Ideas? Noose?
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Well, that was nasty! But finally got it. Trying for subtle was quite tedious. Needed 3 lights. Extremely critical positioning of lights, falloff, cone angle, material settings on black layer. Most annoying was the white that would appear instead of transmission color if the light cone went “off” the edges of the tranmission layer. Had to add a mask to the black reflection layer to remove. Obviously different input images would need to be treated differently. Almost easier to do it in 3D…..
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