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dungbeetle

12-27-2004, 07:26 AM

hi all, i've created a default pond from the "dynamics" tab, i like everything with it, except for the fact that i'm stuck when i need the pond's shader to reflect stuff that is laying on top of it, eg:lilypads. it doesnt seem to have a setting for reflections as far as i can find, whereas the OCEAN shader has it. (but the way the ocean moves, it's not what i want,so i stuck back to POND)

i've got a custom phong shader , is there any way i can plug it into the pond's shader?without affecting the way the waves and wakes move?

i just need the reflection!!

thanks in advance~
han.

dungbeetle

12-28-2004, 12:20 AM

desperate here, can anyone help?please~ :deal:

alexx

12-28-2004, 10:34 AM

no idea why they have that limitation in, but fluids can not reflect.

the workaround (and a mostly lousy one) is to convert the fluids to polygons via edit->convert->fluids to polygons

that new poly can have any material you wish

cheers

alexx

dungbeetle

12-28-2004, 02:33 PM

thanks for the quick response man~!
i've tried converting it to poly, but it seems that the poly wont deform according to the fluids? it's just a freezed mesh.. or am i wrong.

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