Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Reflective glass only works with a globe, not a flat panel of glass?

pookah69 opened this issue on Jul 02, 2005 ยท 18 posts

Smoker1000 posted Sun, 03 July 2005 at 11:42 AM

  1. With lights pointed directly at the reflective surface, there'll be some washout in the entire effect - so fiddling with the lights is crucial. 2) My experience with raytraced planes says the fewer polygons on the plane the better. Raytracers tend to calculate per polygon which can easily result in a fragmented image. (see 3 below) 3) The model origin needs to be considered. If the model came in with smoothing, and many objs. - particular those exported from P4 - will contain smoothing data. To help prevent fragmentation, make certain the plane is not smoothed. Absolutely critical if the plane has more than one face. - Mark