azimakberali opened this issue on Nov 21, 2009 · 23 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 21 November 2009 at 8:17 AM
But look at the picture you showed, azim. Look at it closely.
It reflects the floor under the chrome prop. It reflects its own shadow on that floor. The two pieces reflect each other.
You mistake the importance of this if you want to fake the reflections. It will not look like chrome if you fake the environment and it doesn't even show the object it rests on.
In the image you posted, the creator has placed a couple of bright white self-lit rectangles in the scene, something to look at in the chrome piece.
Why do you want to fake that? Is this for a single render that you'll never use the piece again? Or is it for general use? If it is the latter, then any fakery you do will be extremely obvious.
Let me put it another way.
You cannot see chrome. When you look at a perfect chrome object, it is invisible. All you see is the reflections of the things around it.
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