Question: Is there anyway to prevent one mirror from being seen/visible in another mirror?

I have a room setup and there are mirrors in each of the corners.

Zanzo

but that's half the fun; the endless reflections...;)

Actually, angle them so they don't face each other? it's what I'd do...

Quote - but that's half the fun; the endless reflections...;)

Actually, angle them so they don't face each other? it's what I'd do...

Endless reflections would be awesome but i didn't expect that kind of feature lol.

Well for the scene I have a bed in a corner and I wanted mirrors for each angle.  I went ahead and turned off raytracing for each of the mirror frames. The only disadvantage is the frame doesn't cast a shadow so it looks slightly less realistic.

Raytrace bounces are the number of times a reflection will be calculated.  So if you have two mirrors, and you want them both to be reflective, but not to reflect the OTHER mirror's reflection/contents, set raytrace bounces = 1 in Manual render settings.

yes, just to agree with pj.  FFRender only uses ray-tracing for reflective and refractive
fx.  there's a separate FFRender setting for indirect light bounces, which are usually handled
by the ray-tracing variable in modern rendering engines.

Maybe raytrace bounces=2?
If you use 1 ray bounce, you will see the first mirror but it won't have any reflections in it.
Reflective surfaces that don't reflect anything usually look very bad. Probably look like a piece of dull sheet metal or a black hole.

1 raytrace bounce is enough to get a proper reflection in my experience.

That's what I meant; but yours show a 'white hole', instead of black.

Yeah that is the scene background, which currently has no color, which falls back to the Reflect node's background color (white).

That's impressive.  I'd sort of wondered whether the bounce count
would determine the layers of self-reflection, but hadn't ever tried it.

You could do some cool fractal type work that.

By the way - you can make any object visible, but not visible in reflections - uncheck "Visible in RayTracing".

This does not mean it can't have reflections, it means it cannot be seen in reflections, like a vampire.

If you have two mirrors, each invisible to raytracing, they will not show up in each other.

Sorry for pulling up ancient threads, but...

By the way - you can make any object visible, but not visible in reflections - uncheck "Visible in RayTracing".

Does this work the other way around, too?

I want to have one figure be visible in a scene, standing in front of a mirror, being reflected, while another is invisible in the scene, but reflected in the mirror, and thought it might work in one scene - can it?

No.  And by the way this article is complicated by Poser 8 and Indirect Lighting - for more accurate-looking Global Illumination effects, you want 7 or more raytrace bounces.  Sadly, reflection depth is not accessible in the built in render settings, although you can control it more finely through python (Dimenson3D's render control script can do it).

There isn't any way to have an object be visible ONLY in reflections, you'll have to do some tricky compositing.

Ah, that's a pity. But thanks for the fast reply.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3515213&ebot_calc_page#message_3515213

Thanks for the link - it's an idea. ^^ Else, there is always PS. Maybe the next Poser version can do this...