Forum: Carrara


Subject: mirror -picture - catcher?!

benjamino opened this issue on Feb 13, 2003 ยท 6 posts


pixelicious posted Thu, 13 February 2003 at 2:24 PM

Let me get this straight first... Video file used as T-map on object. Area of video that you want to be reflective. Reflection should be of objects in the scene. If this is the case, than I would try to make an alpha channel of the reflective surface in the movie file. (You know black and white and shades of gray, Black=On, White=Off -- Or otherway around) Anyway, save this as a movie file. Use it in the reflectiveness map in the appropriate setting in the texture panel. You may have to fade in the reflection map and then fade it out so that it relfects only at the desired time. Now, making the alpha can be tricky, especially if your clip is long. If you are have after effects, I'd use that. But you could probably accomplish it in flash if you wanted. Or frame by frame in photoshop. ; ) At anyrate, that's how I would attempt solving the problem. Good luck. -pix