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#1st Frame reflection

    16-Feb-94 09:10:28
Sb: #1st Frame reflection
Fm: KEITH TROMER 70711,3217
To: sysop/all (X)
I am creating a scene with a marble floor which is auto-reflection mapped (flat mirror). This looks great but takes forever to render. So I want to create the reflection on the first frame only, but some of my objects will move and change – therefore I want to hide only THESE objects on the first frame. The problem is that I will be doing about 10 separate renderings with different cameras and I am using Release 2. Is there a way I can hide the objects and render a certain view that I can then reflection map that image on it? (Is that confusing enough?) i.e. I have a Marble floor, a bunch of Pilars and a dome ceiling. The camera will move within this and I dont want to figure the flat mirror on the floor every frame. Any thoughts? thanks, -KT