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#relective material

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#101853From: PatrickMay 15, 1994 4:19 PM

Does anyone have a decent relective material they want to share? P.S. Is it illigle to share user-made materials?, if so… ignore this message. <g> -Ben

#101898From: MARTIN G FOSTERMay 15, 1994 10:30 PM

Ben, I don't think it's illegal to share materials you've made with anyone – maybe just inadvisable <G>. You can describe in a little more detail what effect you are looking for and maybe we can describe some settings and/or make a suggestion.

#102186From: PatrickMay 17, 1994 5:07 AM

>>I don't think it's illegal to share materials you've made with anyone – maybe just inadvisable <G>. You can describe in a little more detail what effect you are looking for and maybe we can describe some settings and/or make a suggestion. << Well, Martin, thanks for the reply…. What I want is a material thats just like a mirror – or one similar to the marble floor in 3DStudios WaveLogo animation. Do you know the one? I just want a material to reflect the images of the objects around it. I hope you can help. -Ben

#102205From: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK]May 17, 1994 8:19 AM

Ben, << reflective materials >> see 9-37 to 0-39 in the R2 manual or….. see 9-63 in the r3 manual… This ability is built in to 3ds and tutorial #12 walks you through it very nicely.. jonas[adesk]

#102268From: MARTIN G FOSTERMay 17, 1994 1:02 PM

Ben, >> What I want is a material thats just like a mirror << like Jonas said, that's covered very nicely in the tutorials. Check them out.

#102680From: Stuart NicholsonMay 18, 1994 8:06 PM

Easy! Do the flat mirror reflection tutorial in the Tutorial Guide that comes with 3DS!

#102678From: Stuart NicholsonMay 18, 1994 8:01 PM

Just on materials….Has anyone been able to model a convincing Diamond??

#102859From: MARTIN G FOSTERMay 19, 1994 12:33 PM

Stuart, a convincing diamond wouldn't be hard to _model_ in 3ds, it'd be just really awkward to _render_ convincingly without the benefit of refraction. Not impossible, though, since it sounds like some of the forum members have come up with a workaround. I'll defer to them since I haven't come up with one.

#102984From: Stuart NicholsonMay 20, 1994 1:56 AM

Yeah…Modelling one was the easy bit!

#102988From: Stuart NicholsonMay 20, 1994 1:58 AM

Yeah, I guess my message was a little misleading. Modelling a diamond take about 2 minutes, getting it to render even vaguely convincingly……..mmmmmmm

#103007From: ARA GREGORIANMay 20, 1994 4:42 AM

you can seperate each cut of the dimond into an element and apply a slightly differant flat reflective map to each element with a slight amount of blur and magnification. or you can build a complete 3d envirnoment with the dimond where ever it is supposed to be and render the seen with automatic reflection on for the dimond. maybe this can work? ara