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Mirror-like texture - psycholinguist - 08-29-2014
I am still a newbie and learning, but having a lot of fun :-)
The second piece of furniture I want to model is a wardrobe with mirrored doors. I tried to ask Google and found some information about how to do this in Blender, but whenever I search for "mirror texture Wings3D", I have to wade through many, many results on how to use the mirror/virtual mirror tool, which is not what I am interested in.
Could someone please put me on the right track? What do I need to search for? Is there a tutorial or some documentation on how to do this?
I am attaching my current file, which I created by imitating the textures in http://www.sweethome3d.com/models/contributions/mirror.zip. However, the result doesn't look nice at all :-(
RE: Mirror-like texture - Radi - 08-30-2014
Hi. Im newbie too. Im sleepy now and my brain is not functioning properly now, but what about flipping UVmap of second door horizontally ? Should work. .
RE: Mirror-like texture - psycholinguist - 08-30-2014
Hi, thanks for the reply.
When I said "mirrored doors", I didn't mean they are mirrors of each other, but that the surface of the doors is one big mirror (on a wardrobe, so you can see what you look like when you get dressed). I looked up "Spiegeltüren"/"portes miroirs" in a dictionary, I'm not sure its right ;-)
RE: Mirror-like texture - Radi - 08-30-2014
As far as I know, Wings do not have real reflections, it program purely for modeling and not for making such scenes.
I know wings support exporting to Kerkythea and POV-Ray (those are for rendering scenes ?) so maybe someone more experienced than me jumps in and help you :-)
Cheers
RE: Mirror-like texture - micheus - 08-30-2014
(08-30-2014, 10:08 AM)psycholinguist Wrote: When I said "mirrored doors", I didn't mean they are mirrors of each other, but that the surface of the doors is one big mirror (on a wardrobe, so you can see what you look like when you get dressed).When I read your question I thought the same as Raid.
You will not able to see reflections inside Wings3D. What you can do is define that kind of material for export to renders like POV-ray or Kerkythea as pointed by Radi.
So, what you want is not related to Wings3D. You are talking about a material that should be applied to your model to be used by another 3D application.
As you made another post talking about the Sweet Home 3D I think you want load your model into it. In this case, that tool should provide you a way to apply this kind of material. I search if for you in the Sweet Home 3D Forum and there is a thread about that: MIRROR EFFECT
RE: Mirror-like texture - psycholinguist - 08-30-2014
(08-30-2014, 02:23 PM)micheus Wrote: So, what you want is not related to Wings3D. You are talking about a material that should be applied to your model to be used by another 3D application.
As you made another post talking about the Sweet Home 3D I think you want load your model into it. In this case, that tool should provide you a way to apply this kind of material. I search if for you in the Sweet Home 3D Forum and there is a thread about that: MIRROR EFFECT
Great. I searched the wrong documentation & forums (the wings3d ones)
No wonder I didn't find anything. Well, I know there's a lot I don't understand yet. But thanks for pointing me in the right direction!