Is there a 'Reflection' Ground Plain?

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Would like to know if there is a 'Reflection Ground Plain' that when placed at the ground zero you get a mirror reflection of your scene / character placed on it.

Idealy having a variety of textures as well eg small / large tiles, wooden flooring, fine gravel maybe.

Elor

Applying a mirror preset / a very reflective material preset on a primitive plane should do the work just fine.

felis

Not sure what you are after.

You can create a plane and make it reflect like a mirror.

But how will you combine it with textures? You could make a tile layer where it only reflects on the tiles and not the gap between the tiles.

Do you have a picture showing what you are after?

3Diva

Something like this might help if you have trouble setting up plane primitives to create reflections:https://www.daz3d.com/catcher-plus--shadows-and-reflections-for-iray

It can be tricky to get surface settings to do nice reflections if you're not very familiar with the Iray surface settings, so a product like that might be helpful. :)

There are also a couple more products to choose from depending on your preferences and what exactly you're after:

https://www.daz3d.com/reflection-designer

https://www.daz3d.com/sv-s-reflections-floor-iray-shaders

https://www.daz3d.com/iray-hdri-toolkit

 

nemesis10

I did a very quick render with a plane using one of the homestyle shaders (https://www.daz3d.com/homestyle-2-iray-shaders)  Though the render is very incomlete so i can go to bed, note that refelection shines a lot of light into the face of the character...

crosswind

Create a primitive Plane, setting its Metalicity to 1.0 in Surface pane will make it a specular surface (mirror). Then add any texture shader as you wish but don't set any rougness / bump / normal on it.

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crosswind said:

Create a primitive Plane, setting its Metalicity to 1.0 in Surface pane will make it a specular surface (mirror). Then add any texture shader as you wish but don't set any rougness / bump / normal on it.

Thank you 'crosswind' will try this out for sure

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3Diva said:

Something like this might help if you have trouble setting up plane primitives to create reflections:https://www.daz3d.com/catcher-plus--shadows-and-reflections-for-iray

It can be tricky to get surface settings to do nice reflections if you're not very familiar with the Iray surface settings, so a product like that might be helpful. :)

There are also a couple more products to choose from depending on your preferences and what exactly you're after:

https://www.daz3d.com/reflection-designer

https://www.daz3d.com/sv-s-reflections-floor-iray-shaders

https://www.daz3d.com/iray-hdri-toolkit

 

Oh, this is fantastic, thank you '3Diva'...great links and will look through these....still a beginner with a lot to learn

 

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nemesis10 said:

I did a very quick render with a plane using one of the homestyle shaders (https://www.daz3d.com/homestyle-2-iray-shaders)  Though the render is very incomlete so i can go to bed, note that refelection shines a lot of light into the face of the character...

This is great, thank you for taking the time to respond

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Elor said:

Applying a mirror preset / a very reflective material preset on a primitive plane should do the work just fine.

 

Was not quite sure how to do this...still a complete noob...but thank you for replying 'Elor'

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felis said:

Not sure what you are after.

You can create a plane and make it reflect like a mirror.

But how will you combine it with textures? You could make a tile layer where it only reflects on the tiles and not the gap between the tiles.

Do you have a picture showing what you are after?

Thanks for your response 'felis'...there is plenty of information contained within this thread that is very suitable