Cage opened this issue on Aug 19, 2002 ยท 17 posts
scotttucker3d posted Tue, 20 August 2002 at 12:10 PM
Cage, First of all Poser does reflection maps because it does not raytrace (and cannot handle true reflection) Vue can. If you really want to use your reflection maps as additional reflection be sure your object has some reflection and then click on the variable reflectivity box. Edit the new Reflectivity production function and choose mapped values. Load your reflection map. Use the amplitude value to determine how much influence your reflection map has in the final reflection (higher values favor the reflection map more). Click ok. Play with the global reflection slider and you should see the influence of your reflection map in the preview render. Also you can use the relectivity filter in the Reflectivity production function to allow your map to influence the reflection even further. Also you may need to experiment with the way the reflection is mapped - automatic might not always give you the result you need. Vue doesn't have a reflection mapping mode, but spherical might work better, for example. Experiment and see. What you posted above looks a lot like a bump map - and a bump map is needed to get specular and some reflective effects just right. Load that reflection map into the bump channel of the material in Vue. Set the bump to a low value at first to see what influence it has in the preview render. This map will probably also work well in the variable highlights function (following the steps I just showed for reflection mapping). Hope this helps. Scott