Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Poser Mirror

regaltwo opened this issue on Jan 01, 2004 · 9 posts

regaltwo posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 1:41 PM

How would one go about making a mirror surface (for a mirror)in Poser?

wheatpenny posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 1:44 PM Site Admin

Poser 4 or 5?



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regaltwo posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 1:56 PM

Poser 4 PP

KarenJ posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 2:22 PM

You'll have to render what the reflection would be, then use that image as a texture for the mirror surface.

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regaltwo posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 2:34 PM

Ah. Too bad. What I was trying to do was make a prop for sale that would do it automatically. I guess the user will have to do that part themselves. :) Thanks.

wheatpenny posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 3:45 PM Site Admin

P5 can do a mirror surfacen with raytraced reflections, but with P4 you have to fake it.



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Riddokun posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 5:14 PM

what method do you recommend to make / pose the reflection image ? i have a picture in progress and have problem.. i wanted to put a clone/twin of the character on he other side of the supposed mirror, and revert the symmetry / switch left right but it does not work :(

Little_Dragon posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 11:56 PM

Take a look at my P4 reflection tutorial; maybe it'll give you a few ideas.

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1125270


lesbentley posted Fri, 02 January 2004 at 1:32 PM

Here is how I made the above image using a free standing mirror rather than a wall mirror as in Little_Dragon's tutorial. 1. I made an image from the rear camera and fliped it horizontaly as per Little_Dragon's tutorial, I named this image 1a.jpg 2. I made an image from the front camera and saved it as 1b.jpg. 3. I imported 1a.jpg as a background (hiding one of the walls which would other wise have obscured the background image), I exported this as 1c.jpg. 4. I loaded 1c.jpg into Paint Shop Pro 5, then pasted in 1b.jpg as a layer. 5. I used the eraser tool on the mirror surface to let 1c.jpg show through 1b.jpg in that aria. There was a also certain amount of hiding and unhiding walls that I have not explained above for simplicities sake. Although it is not necessary I also used the ReflectCams.cr2 (link posted in Little_Dragon's thread) to aid in positioning the cameras.