Brian Mclaughlin
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Unfortunately, I think you’re right. I was hoping to find a way to do what I was looking for, but it just doesn’t seem possible. Thanks.
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The only Reflection only option I can find has to do with whether or not something casts a reflection, so that the original object can be transparent and you only see its reflection. What I’m looking for is a way to make the actual reflective surface transparent, as if it was made of glass, and I can’t seem to do that.
Oddly enough, the old cloning the object trick from Motion 3 to get a “reflection” does what I’m looking for, more or less, but it has it’s own issues that prevent me from using that. I was really hoping when you set the fill color of the reflective surface that I could just turn down the opacity and still have the reflection, but nope, the reflection disappears at that point as well. Any other ideas?
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The alpha channel seems fine, as everything else that’s supposed to be transparent comes in that way, its just the plane I’m using as the reflective surface doesn’t. For example, I tried setting the plane to pure black, then set its blend mode to add. In theory, that should make the black effectively transparent against the background. If I put in a background in the motion project, I get the effect I want, but if I take out that background, then import the project as a template into FCP, the black surface just shows up as black, no matter what’s is blend mode is set to. It’s like FCP just ignores it.
What I really need is a way to effectively set the fill color of the plane to transparent, but if I cut the opacity of the plane to try and achieve that, the reflections just disappear along with the color.