I've been a big fan of the renders I see around here involving reflections--i.e. a girl/car/rock/whatever sitting on the floor and the floor is reflective, or there being a mirror next to the person in the render... And I really want to do this. But I have no idea how. How do I make a reflective floor? Reflective mirror? Anything like that? Thanks! -Viv

You need POSER5... or Bryce,Max, or other software.

Or you can fake it by rendering the reflection from the mirror's perspective, and then compositing the reflection into the scene in post.

This a quickie with P5.

Yep, has to be a full ray trace render engine,... P4 is a "kinda sorta" render engine, that doesn't do ray tracing. I've always used Bryce with imported figures and all the insanity that causes,... but just got P5 and Vue d'Esprit,.. both with ray trace capabilities. Maybe I can start doing that chromed armor effect in Poser now??

Niles - please tell us how you did your "quickie" what things did you set in Poser 5 ? Thanks.

I second that. Niles, I'd love to know how you did that quickie reflection.

I'd very much like to know, too. And also, to know how quick is this quickie to render ? Compiler

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I find I can fake reflesctions in Photshop faster and better than "real" ones, to tell the truth. Not ones on the floor, though! In P4, that is. There are some instructions on how to do it with the free oval mirror at my website.

To make a refelection goto the Mat. room, select the object you want to reflect (the mirror). Under the object color (Diffuse color) select New node Lighting Raytrace Refelect. Or you could plug this node into the refelection slot. Now you must render with Raytracing on (under the render options).

It may not be the right way, but it works. 3 lights, the cartoon figures, rendered in 35 seconds. reflection value set at 2.8 1 node plugged into Reflection Color