Mirror-like texture

[psycholinguist]

I am still a newbie and learning, but having a lot of fun :-)

The second piece of furniture I want to model is a wardrobe with mirrored doors. I tried to ask Google and found some information about how to do this in Blender, but whenever I search for "mirror texture Wings3D", I have to wade through many, many results on how to use the mirror/virtual mirror tool, which is not what I am interested in.

Could someone please put me on the right track? What do I need to search for? Is there a tutorial or some documentation on how to do this?

I am attaching my current file, which I created by imitating the textures in http://www.sweethome3d.com/models/contri...mirror.zip. However, the result doesn't look nice at all :-(

[Radi]

Hi. Im newbie too. Im sleepy now and my brain is not functioning properly now, but what about flipping UVmap of second door horizontally ? Should work. .

[psycholinguist]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

When I said "mirrored doors", I didn't mean they are mirrors of each other, but that the surface of the doors is one big mirror (on a wardrobe, so you can see what you look like when you get dressed). I looked up "Spiegeltüren"/"portes miroirs" in a dictionary, I'm not sure its right ;-)

[Radi]

As far as I know, Wings do not have real reflections, it program purely for modeling and not for making such scenes.
I know wings support exporting to Kerkythea and POV-Ray (those are for rendering scenes ?) so maybe someone more experienced than me jumps in and help you :-)
Cheers

[micheus]

(08-30-2014 10:08 AM)psycholinguist Wrote:  When I said "mirrored doors", I didn't mean they are mirrors of each other, but that the surface of the doors is one big mirror (on a wardrobe, so you can see what you look like when you get dressed).

When I read your question I thought the same as Raid.

You will not able to see reflections inside Wings3D. What you can do is define that kind of material for export to renders like POV-ray or Kerkythea as pointed by Radi.

So, what you want is not related to Wings3D. You are talking about a material that should be applied to your model to be used by another 3D application.

As you made another post talking about the Sweet Home 3D I think you want load your model into it. In this case, that tool should provide you a way to apply this kind of material. I search if for you in the Sweet Home 3D Forum and there is a thread about that: MIRROR EFFECT

[psycholinguist]

(08-30-2014 02:23 PM)micheus Wrote:  So, what you want is not related to Wings3D. You are talking about a material that should be applied to your model to be used by another 3D application.

As you made another post talking about the Sweet Home 3D I think you want load your model into it. In this case, that tool should provide you a way to apply this kind of material. I search if for you in the Sweet Home 3D Forum and there is a thread about that: MIRROR EFFECT

Great. I searched the wrong documentation & forums (the wings3d ones) No wonder I didn't find anything.

Well, I know there's a lot I don't understand yet. But thanks for pointing me in the right direction!