Maya - reflection help

[zylphyr]

check under the Render stats of your your geometry-shape, and make sure "visible in reflections" is checked.

maybe boost the number of refelections rays in the render stats.

or boost the refelction limit on the shader on the floor...

[anonymous]

maya had a great tut on how to properly set up relections and refractions but it is down now If anyone has a database of this saved

it would really help me out. this is the former url (it is down now

http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Community/Learn/how_tos/rendering/reflect_refract/

[kiaran]

That tree isn't paintfx right? Just curious because paint fx are rendered as a post effect and will not be included in any raytracing.

[trthing]

Is the shader you applied to the sphere a Lambert?

[anonymous]

and the shader applied to the sphere is a lambert andd the one applied to the flower is a blinn

[misterdi]

Why not up your scene file, I'll check it for you.

:)

[anonymous]

I some what figured out how to make it reflect. I played around with the specular color and relected color and got it to reflect abit


Thanks for the offer misterdi:) but i'm happy with these results

[misterdi]

Hmmmm, that might be what happening.

Your plane is has specular (hotspot) at the exact space of the reflection. So when it was sum up it goes up and clip at value of 1.0 which is white.

Why don't try to reduce the specular color of the plane and boost up reflectivity to over than 1.0

Starting from there you can adjust it back to the look you are looking for.

Remember that specular color and reflectivity has positive relation, as soon as you lower specular color (or adjusting threshold) you need to compensate in reflectivity.

:beer:

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