Re: Reflections..

[André Adam <a_adam(at)49games.de>]

As far as I know you indeed need to get the normals right to make that 
work. If you're into bevels without hard edges, you can try and create 
insets for the faces that should reflect in a plain fashion:

CreatePrim("Cube", "MeshSurface", null, null);
ApplyTopoOp("BevelComponent", "cube.edge[*]", siUnspecified, 
siPersistentOperation, null);
SetValue("cube.polymsh.bevelop.nbsubdivs", 2, null);
ApplyTopoOp("InsetPolygons", "cube.poly[0-5]", siUnspecified, 
siPersistentOperation, null);
SetValue("cube.polymsh.extrudecompaxisop.inset", 0.25, null);


Martin Belleau wrote:

> Oki it works much better... But what happens if I don't want to use hard
> edge, and use a Bevel... I get the same type of result.. all distorted. For
> example, on a small job we had to render 3D text with reflection. The edges
> were beveled but the reflection on the front face was all distorted (like
> the image).
>
> Is the only factor normals?
>
> PS - for this scene, I'll use hard edges. Thanks for the tip!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> André Adam
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:18 AM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Reflections..
>
> Have you already tried to create hard edges on the boundaries of that 
> object? It looks like the distortion is caused by interpolated vertex 
> normals. To check, take a look at those normals, they have to be 
> splitted up and not appear unified at the edges of your object to make 
> it work the way you want.
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> -André
>
>
> Martin Belleau wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Allo!
> > I noticed that when I put reflection on an object, the reflection on 
> > the surface is not even, its all distorted. Its like I had put a 
> > texture on the surface and its UV’s were all distorted. Is there any 
> > way to get a clean reflection???
> >
> > I get this on at least 90% of my objects….
> >
> > Here is an example of the distorted reflection:
> >
> > http://www.skuadstudios.com/reflection1.jpg
> >
> > It gets less drastic when I put more subdivision but its never “clean”.
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > **Martin Belleau***
> > ***FX Director***
> > ***Skuad Studios***
> > ***T:(514)844.3990***
> > **C:(514)799.3990***
> >
> >    
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