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Refections on shiny surface
Hi everyone,
I need some help on how to create a surface reflection. I want my object to be reflected by a shiny surface underneath of it, (as a table). Does AE have such a plug-in? or is there another way to do it?
Help appreciated,
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AE doesn’t do raytraced reflections, where one surface is a mirror, reflecting another.
You need to fake it with one copy of each object on either side of the table, as if there really were a duplicate world on the other side of the “looking glass”. For an example, go here:
https://www.reidroberts.com/aeprojects/ and save (r-click & save) the “faux raytraced reflections” project about halfway down.For raytraced reflections, you need to use Combustion (IIRC) or a “real” 3D app.
Steve
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Thanx for the reply,
I tried opening the link you gave me, but all I see is a bunch of letter and symbols. When I right-click it, I don’t see any “save as”, I could only save a link to the desktop, it doesn’t give me any options. Is there something I’m missing here, or not doing it right?
Thanx anyway,
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Sorry — select “save target as”, and save as .htm. Then go in and change the extension from .htm to .aep.
Gotta fix that sometime.
Steve
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I finally got it, but AE won’t open it. The error message says: “After Effects Warning: After Effects can’t import file…as project”. I tried almost all projects on the page, none work. I’m working on a mac, could it be a compatibility problem?
Thanx,
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Bloody ‘ell. Let me try.
In Safari, I selected “download linked file”, then “show in finder”, then changed the extension to AEP. It opened fine in AE 6.5 Mac.
Sorry for the inconvenience — I did those a while ago.
Steve
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