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Subject: Thoughts on reflections

mdbruffy opened this issue on Jul 18, 2015 · 7 posts
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mdbruffy ( ) posted Sat, 18 July 2015 at 3:06 PM · edited Tue, 19 November 2024 at 10:35 AM

I'm using Poser 9. Anyone know what the settings are for a good clean mirror type reflection? Everything I've tried looks like the character's reflection ius being seen through a fog.


Anthanasius ( ) posted Sat, 18 July 2015 at 5:48 PM · edited Sun, 19 July 2015 at 2:17 AM

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mdbruffy ( ) posted Sat, 18 July 2015 at 6:00 PM

Thank you very much, Anthanasiu. Not only did that work, it sped up my render time! **Thank you!
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moogal ( ) posted Sun, 19 July 2015 at 8:44 PM

I have to wonder what you were trying before...

mdbruffy ( ) posted Sun, 19 July 2015 at 8:46 PM

I have to wonder what you were trying before...

A chrome material shader with reflection. It wasn't working. I was getting a reflection, but it looked like the reflection was standing in a fog bank.


Xartis ( ) posted Thu, 23 July 2015 at 12:00 PM

The best reflection setup I ever found was a freebie here by Richabri called Bunny Set.

I noted his simple settings for the mirror and have never looked back.  No shaders just a modification of the Reflection Wacro. 

bagginsbill ( ) posted Thu, 23 July 2015 at 12:16 PM · edited Thu, 23 July 2015 at 12:18 PM

I just checked the Bunny set. Node-wise it's exactly the same as what Anthanasius posted already. 

However, as far as the individual parameter values, it is inferior to Anthanasius' parameter values, which itself is not quite perfect.

  1. Bunny set has almost-black Diffuse_Color with Diffuse_Value = 1. Wrong. A real mirror has no diffuse at all, as Anthansasius posted with Diffuse_Value = 0 - it's turned off.

  2. Bunny set has almost-black Specular_Color. Wrong. A real mirror would reflect a Poser light source very brightly. Anth forgot this part. Put a point light in front to see what I mean.

  3. Bunny set has Reflection_Value = 1.0. There are no perfect mirrors in real life. 90% reflection is typical, and Anthansius has .9 in Reflection_Value.

  4. Bunny set has Reflect Quality = .5. For a smooth, flat reflection, this is way overkill and will slow your render down for no benefit. Anth has .4, but even that is excessive, IMO.

  5. Bunny set has Highlight_Size = .1 - a ridiculous soft reflection for a mirror. Mirror reflections of point light sources are points - no smearing or blurring.

So - there ya go - not the best reflection setup at all.

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