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I keep trying to make stuff 'mirrored', but what works for one model won't work for another. <br /> <br /> Worse, I neither understand what I've done right nor what has gone wrong. <br /> <br /> Part of problem is a great chunk of Poser manual's 'Material Room' documentation describes the wondrous, one-click facilities provided by 'wacros'. <br /> <br /> Which I could not find... <br /> I shrugged, decided that was due to removal of deprecated Python version. <br /> <br /> This latest foray into reflectivity etc was spawned by a MMD/PMX freebie, a panel van. Actually one of four versions in set, sharing many parts. Converted to OBJ+MTL using 3DOC($$) or free PMX Editor, there were a few glitches, a few texture tweaks required, but it rendered okay in Poser. <br /> <br /> Except for the 'wing mirrors', which remained stubbornly 'matt'. <br /> <br /> They, at least, had their own material call, but used a complex texture map, which lacked any obvious mirror shapes. Took a 'binary chop' with half a dozen iterations to locate... <br /> <br /> So, not only did I need reflection, but I also had to mask the effect. <br /> <br /> I found several tutorials by JCH, sadly only for P5/P6, and the Material room has evolved <b><i>far </i></b>since then. <br /> <br /> I'd just been wrangling those silly horizontal dots marking hidden menus at foot of Library, having mis-clicked them, when I noticed similar vertical dots at right of Material Room, Advanced. <br /> <br /> Um, yeah, due Covid, I'm a year over-due updating my arm-length-focus 'VDU' glasses... <br /> But, surely not ? <br /> Indeed, like Poe's infamous 'Purloined Letter', wacros have been there all along... <br /> D'uh... <br /> <br /> An evening of experimentation ensued. <br /> Eventually, I found the 'reflection' wacro spawned three 'nodes', per blue trail, but I could dispense with its two subsidiaries. If masking required, add new node, 2d-textures, image map. Drag its 'port' to reflection value, per lower green trail. Link to 'reflection' appears automatically. Add image call. White reflects... <br /> <br /> Care: render default may change to firefly, as wacros over-ride preferences. Just re-select superfly. <br /> <br /> I could not make Poser Primitives' 2-sided square behave, my simple 'map' refused to wrap correctly. Will explore. Single-sided square was okay. Box was <b><i>mostly </i></b>okay, but showed artefacts. Will explore these, too. And I must tweak 'metallicity' and 'smoothness', where-ever they may lurk, to minimise the ripples / freckles... <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/680/combomap.jpg" target="_blank" title="Click to open image in new window"><img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/680/combomap.jpg" alt="Image" width="400" title="Image" /></a> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/680/clipboard01_1643035241_953300.jpg" target="_blank" title="Click to open image in new window"><img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/680/clipboard01_1643035241_953300.jpg" alt="Image" width="400" title="Image" /></a> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/680/untitled3.jpg" target="_blank" title="Click to open image in new window"><img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/680/untitled3.jpg" alt="Image" width="400" title="Image" /></a> <br /> <br /> Very much 'Work in Progress', but several 'pitons' up steep learning curve...

There's nothing like a dozen quickie test-renders to help wrap wits around problem... <br /> <br /> This is not the best way to do reflections, but may help. <br /> <br /> Do Safety-scan, of course. Un-zip some-where convenient, there's a 'ReadMe' in the mini-Runtime.

Just two one-sided squares set at right-angles. One entirely mirrored, other with a blank patch. <br /> <br /> Not a brilliant render, but 'Proof of Concept'. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/680/mirrormirror1.jpg" target="_blank" title="Click to open image in new window"><img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/680/mirrormirror1.jpg" alt="Image" width="400" title="Image" /></a>

Thanks, I'll try it, but tomorrow <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/boyyawn.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/TFR718 (6).gif" alt="" /> <br /> I'm on P7, but might work with some tweaking...

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" /> Worked in P7 out of the box (only changed the version number of the mt5 to "7" to avoid the error message)

Yay !! My freebie actually works !! <br /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/ayeah.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/ayeah.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/ayeah.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/ayeah.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/ayeah.gif" alt="" />

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" /> Thank you kindly Nik! It reminds me of PhilC's dressing room mirrors <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/TFR708.gif" alt="" /> .