drsiemens opened this issue on Jan 24, 2001 ยท 3 posts
drsiemens posted Wed, 24 January 2001 at 4:18 AM
Hey folks, I've tried in vain to create a volumetric texture with a mirrored surface. I've pretty much decided that it just can't be done -- but I figured I'd ask all you gurus here before I totally gave up.
drsiemens posted Wed, 24 January 2001 at 4:20 AM
Oh yeah, I'd also be interested in a glass (refracting) volumetric texture, but I don't think that's possible either.
Flickerstreak posted Thu, 25 January 2001 at 2:36 PM
Nope: No can do. I'd love to have a refractive volume textures, but again... no can do. (would be great to create heat ripples, eh?) Bryce categorizes reflection, refraction, and transparency as surface characteristics only. It would be really nice if we could get surface characteristics on hard-shaded volume materials too, wouldn't it?