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Subject: How do I making mirrow reflections on a floor??


antovasa ( ) posted Sun, 25 August 2002 at 10:35 AM ยท edited Thu, 21 November 2024 at 12:53 AM

How do I making a mirrow reflection from Victoria on a floor??


thgeisel ( ) posted Sun, 25 August 2002 at 11:30 AM

you cant do that in poser( maybe in poser 5) you need a real raytracer or you have to fake it in a image edit program


Roy G ( ) posted Sun, 25 August 2002 at 11:50 AM

There is a trick where the floor is made somewhat transparent and a mirrored and upside down room and characters are below the floor. I'm not sure exactly what the settings should be though as I have not played with this yet.


Roy G ( ) posted Sun, 25 August 2002 at 12:51 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=236724

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I had a project open in Poser and decided to try what I mentioned above. Here is an Image of my Space Girl and new FREE Space Ball over in FreeStuff. The floor is actually a Flat SpaceBall with the transparency set to 60%. The link is for the gallery post that I made earlier.


Little_Dragon ( ) posted Mon, 26 August 2002 at 7:16 AM

I haven't tried a mirrored floor (or ceiling) yet.

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Video clip (MPEG format, 1.37MB)

100% Poser render. I rendered each reflection separately by placing the camera behind the mirror. Once I had the video rendered, I flipped it horizontally so it would be a true mirror image, then moved the camera back into the studio and imported the "reflection" video as a background animation.

It's a simple trick when the camera is stationary, but a nightmare to get everything aligned properly when you add camera movement.

To get a mirrored floor effect, I'd make the floor invisible, stick the camera underneath, render the "reflection", then flip the image vertically and import it as a background. Then I'd put the camera above the floor, align it so the background lines up with the characters and setting, and render the final image.



Spanki ( ) posted Mon, 26 August 2002 at 11:40 AM

Wow! Very clever, Little D. I can just imagine the grin on your face as this thing came together. Excellent work! BTW, (way off topic) did you ever use a terminal program called Access! ? (just curious).

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Little_Dragon ( ) posted Mon, 26 August 2002 at 10:46 PM

No. Why? Was it for the Amiga?



Spanki ( ) posted Mon, 26 August 2002 at 11:08 PM

Yes... I cut my 'C' teeth on writing that program (had been doing Basic and Assembler before that) ;).

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Little_Dragon ( ) posted Tue, 27 August 2002 at 8:30 PM

I never got any further than BASIC, Fortran, Logo, Pascal, RPGII, Cobol, and a little Assembler, myself. I wasn't an Amiga user; I'm just a fan of Eric Schwartz's artwork and characters.



Spanki ( ) posted Tue, 27 August 2002 at 8:57 PM

Ahh... ;). I just noticed the Amiga checkmark on your character's t-shirt.

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