Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A new use for reflection maps ?

Kalypso opened this issue on Apr 26, 2002 ยท 6 posts


Staale posted Sat, 27 April 2002 at 3:58 AM

Reflection maps are mapped to a invisible sphere that surrounds the poser scene and then reflected back to the object that uses it, so using a object template on them is a waste of time. If you want to find out how Reflection maps work then turn off normal texturing and set the object colour to black, the image you see in the preview mode now is a near perfect rendition of how the reflection map will look when rendered, so you can just rotate and pose the model to see how the reflection is mapped onto the surface of the model. With normal (not pro) poser you can also do a lot of stuff with unconverted bump maps, the bum format is a bmp image so you can just rename any bmp to bum and use it directly in poser to add strange effects to models. Staale