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#Auto Flat Reflection

    28-Mar-95 14:30:28
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.