Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=AgentSmith

Uh...apply the mirror material? Just kidding, I know what you mean. That little pic is the trick, it is a pic that when wrapped onto a sphere, looks normal, let me explain... This is a Bryce-ish trick to simulate the effects in higher end programs for photo-real reflections. All it is, is a giant sphere, the one I use is xyz=300.00, attributes set to positive. I then duplicate it, and make the second one xyz=299.00, attributes set to negative. Group the two spheres. Now you have a giant hollow ball to play in. Apply a picture to it. You will want to make the sphere slightly transparent so light will illuminate the picture, your scene and your reflections. Anything with a reflective surface inside the giant sphere will now reflect a real picture making it that much more realictic. Most of the time you may only need the sun for light, but anything is useable/possible. That link is to my gallery if you want to see some more examples of this. The better ones are two pics called "Meta-Museum", that use this trick, there are 3-4 others also. All of those in my gallery only use one light for illumination of the scene. One problem though, if your reflective objects reflect really well, like those above you will need a pic for the giant sphere that is suited so that when you wrap it Spherically, it looks normal, and not pinched at the top and bottom. A couple pics in my gallery called "Black Glass Figment" use this whole set-up, but the reflections are just splashes of color, so it didn't matter that the giant sphere pic wasn't suited for spherical wrapping. I have just checked my old links to go and get some of these spherical pics and none of them come up, I will check around, see if I can find them again. Was that clear? Or, was I confusing? AgentSmith

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