Reflections???

[andy gee]

Hi everybody !!

I want to know if there is a way of making a reflection of something, totally different to the object that is making the reflection ???

What i mean is: Example a character looking in a well and sees his reflection which follows his/hers every move then suddenly does somthing that the character DOESNT !!! Can this be done ???

If anybody knows how to achieve this, It would be greate if you could let me know !!!

Cheers again Andy Gee !!!:D

[Macet01]

I would take the object you want to reflect and make it unseen by the camera but seen by rays. Animate and render this out. Then replace to reflection object with the one you don't want to be reflected, position and animate it as you want, remove all other objects from the scene and render this. Then in post, composite the two together and you should get the results that you were looking for.

[jeremyhardin]

animate your object with what both the object and reflection will do.
(so right now, you've got one object)
clone it in layout.
(now you have two objects doing the exact same thing.)
animate the one you want to reflect differently at the point you want.

make the one you want reflected unseen by camera and seen by rays

make the real one unseen by rays, seen by camera.

either way works. just another suggestion.

[toby]

one more option - put a camera where the mirror is, render the motion that you want to appear in the mirror, then map the animation back onto the polygon of the mirror, to play back as you render the "real" animation