How to make fake indoor reflections!

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#1

Hello, people! Today, I will show you how to make indoor reflections. Before you start this tutorial, keep these things in mind:

  • Reflections are not in real time
  • Works best indoors
  • Takes more time
  • Has visible seams
  • Can only reflect in a fixed position

Tutorial

1. Focus your camera on the reflective block.

  1. Put the reflective block away.

  2. Turn on view selector.
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  3. Click on any of the arrows

  4. Turn off view selector

  5. Screenshot your view.

  6. Repeat steps 3-6 until you have all the 6 faces of a cube.

  7. Upload all the screenshots and put decals on the opposite face (e.g, you have the left screenshot decal, make it face right.). This corrects the faces of the reflections. Optionally, you can put the block back to its original position.

  8. Edit the transparency to your liking.

  9. You should now have something that looks like this, if done correctly:

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#2

Cool but the fact that it is not realistic depresses me.

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#3

you can see ‘clipping’ on the sphere textures, clearly.
You can also press ‘F’ to anchor your view to a part.

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#4

Let’s not encourage tedious workflows. :pleading_face: :pray:

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