#Auto Flat Reflection
28-Mar-95 14:30:28
Sb: #161088-#Auto Flat Reflection
Fm: David J. Marks 72172,1036
To: Ted Boardman 71022,3001
>> I dropped the project and forgot to mention it here on CIS, but it
>> would be interesting if someone could make it work.
I put Lee up to that challenge when he first moved up here and he made
it work with no problems whatsoever. In his case, there was a
box-mapped cube surrounding the pyramid to provide something to be
reflected. Each plane of the pyramid had a flat-mirror material
assigned to the faces.
I suspect that the problem you and I ran into, is somehow related to a
shared vertex at the top of the pyramid. Lee lofted the pyramid with
deform-fit and the reflections worked on the first attempt! <aargh>
To Scott: Be certain that the flat-mirror material is assigned "by
face" to each "plane" that is reflective. If you assign "by object",
it won't work.