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    • J Offline
      jukkoo
      last edited by

      What would it be the best way to make a vray glass material with a "fake" sky reflection?
      I'll try to explain. Let's say I have a glass skyscraper, and I want to see the sky reflecting on the glass windows. But there is no sky in the scene... Is there a way to give a sky texture to the glass material in the material editor? Or I don't know? How would you do it?
      When I put a jpeg map texture in the diffuse channel, and give it transparency, it looks foggy and pale, and most def. not good...

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        Add a 360 environment texture map in the Background slot in the Environment section of your Options. If you don't want it visible in the render, but only want to see it in the reflection, put it in the reflection slow.

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        • D Offline
          dizain
          last edited by

          Hi Thom,
          where reflaction slow?
          Thanks

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            thomthom
            last edited by

            What? ❓

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            • D Offline
              dizain
              last edited by

              I would like to get the effect of having a reflection on the glass with a map bitmap
              I do not want to see the background image.
              Looks like it works very well
              Are these settings?
              Thanks


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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                Yes - that is where you'd put the reflection map.

                What do you mean by "Slow?"? Is that another question? You find it affecting render times?

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                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
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                  Thom in a previous post you typed slow instead of slot!

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                        dizain
                        last edited by

                        Ahhh ahhh ahhh, the gnome of the forum ... hopefully not mix things again!
                        In your experience, what are the minimum dimensions for the spherical reflection map?
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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          That would depend on the resolution you render in.
                          Fro background they need to be quite big - but in reflection maps I usually find that you can get away with smaller maps - but it depends on the scene.

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                          • Rich O BrienR Offline
                            Rich O Brien Moderator
                            last edited by

                            What the hell is 'fro'?

                            This is a fro.... 😎

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                              thomthom
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                              • Z Offline
                                zowza
                                last edited by

                                I want to reflect ladscape image in the mirrored elevation to get such an effect:
                                http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Lufw3c2g4I/TPU5VqvLXlI/AAAAAAAAXoM/KW_HWDIT2Zs/s1600/Territorial+Agency.+The+Horizon+House+.+Ordos+39+%25281%2529.jpg

                                however when i put GI as sky no backgroung image just black color and reflection with bitmap texture nothing happens.
                                please help me!!!

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @zowza said:

                                  I want to reflect ladscape image in the mirrored elevation to get such an effect:
                                  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Lufw3c2g4I/TPU5VqvLXlI/AAAAAAAAXoM/KW_HWDIT2Zs/s1600/Territorial+Agency.+The+Horizon+House+.+Ordos+39+%25281%2529.jpg

                                  however when i put GI as sky no backgroung image just black color and reflection with bitmap texture nothing happens.
                                  please help me!!!

                                  Increase the multipler for your map.

                                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  • Z Offline
                                    zowza
                                    last edited by

                                    and if the reflection is still a bit hazy and blury and mirror material is too dark?

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