[David Bogie]

AFAIK, you cannot curve a plane in Motion nor can you create a motion pathe that curves through the #d space. Mark or one of the other wonks may have a better answer for you, stay tuned. Meantime, add a sphere or bulge distortion filter and fake it.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Jon Geddes] “I’m sorry bogiesan but that image you displayed is not a natural reflection. It is true that the letters are mirrored just as they should be, but if you ever studied a reflection in real life, you would notice that its not distorted like your image’s reflection is (unless of course the reflective surface is curved/distorted). That distortion cannot be corrected by placing the light in a different place, since the image is being projected on the floor, thus causing it to get closer to the camera towards the bottom of the frame and distort. Any rotation in 3D space would cause it to look even more unnatural.
“

I’d say you’re being way too literal but I’m not going to argue with you. Of course I’ve studied real reflections, been in this business for decades, and I’m familiar with all of the conventional techniques in AE, been doing that for a decade, thanks. Creating any convincing visual simulation in AE is a trade off between the energy required to achieve real world behaviors and investing just enough to sell it to an audience.

The OP from Simms:
> Hi, I’m trying to reflect a group of people who are on different planes. I know how to make an reflection by flipping the image on the Y axis, but this wont work since the people are on different planes. heres a link to what I’m talking about. <

This does not sound to me like a plea for realism so much as “How can I get this out the door?” A single light will do the job quickly. Is it a real reflection? Of course not. Is CC Light Rays a true volumetric light filter? No, but the illusion of applying it to a 3D layer with an alpha is a simple way to avoid being forced to buy another plug or say to your client, “Can’t be done.”

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Dave LaRonde] “[Matthew Severin] “I’ve attached images to show what I get… Image 1 shows the pixelated video, image 2 shows a photo from the same render that looks great.”

Sorry, I don’t see any stills at all.”

The new image/video upload function is very cool but it’s not a one-step process. You must copy and paste the URL that will appear in the “successful upload” box back into the post.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

IKEA.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You got another answer to this same question on adobe.com. Might want to go back to all of your forums where you’ve asked the same question and tell everyone whose advice and which techniques you used and how it worked out for you.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Yes.
But it’s not absolutely bombproof. Some filters just behave differently and the media the project points to can get lost or scrambled.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Jon Geddes] “bogiesan’s suggestion will not look like a natural reflection, since it would be projected on the floor instead of being flipped on the x axis. “

Umm, of course it works. Looks exactly like a reflection. I think. You need to tweak the position of the light and the texture of the floor and maybe add a fade out mask (a gobo in front of the light works) but it’s the precise same visual effect as if the floor were a mirror.

Or I could be all wrong but I just held a mirror up the AE canvas and saw the same illusion, reversed text and everything.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

And be sure to double-post.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

threadjackers!

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Probably easier to do everything normally and just rotate the displays.
It’s a difficult process especially if your client is clueless about video formats. The output from the digi will be feeding a multi-output scalar box that will feed the monitors. You want to get your hands on the scalar or the scalar’s manual a few days ahead of launch. You also want to talk to the geek running the system right now.

bogiesan