Indoor Dynamic Environment Maps Beta

[TheCrypticRunner (Cryptic)]

It doesn’t appear in the beta settings at all.
EDIT: found a fix for this, simply disable safe studio updates. i don’t know why it disables this thing specifically.

[Dev_JayR (JayR)]

Not bad! I messed around with this a bit and this is what I came up with. Keep up the great work Roblox!

[BanTech]

Are there any known issues with MeshParts being the walls for the room? Such that inside the room is inside of the meshpart’s bounding box, as the meshpart contains all 4 sides of the room as one object?

All we’re seeing is the exterior skybox reflected at the moment.

[amer_thel]

For those who can’t get it to work, a metallic PBR material seems to work better than just a reflective part. The ceiling also needs to be a few studs thick for the cube map to render correctly.

Multiple parts seem to work as well as I just removed the roof from one of the template houses here.

[GolgiToad]

My walls are constructed like that (1 mesh all 4 walls), and I eventually got the mirror to work.

[Nightmare4into96 (Kev)]

@ConvexRumbler

Since Roblox started supporting PBR materials, we have been using the skybox for information on how reflections should look and the sliders in Lighting ( EnvironmentDiffuseScale and EnvironmentSpecularScale ) control the amount of indirect lighting received by objects in the scene.

This is the update I’ve always dreamed of! This is AMAZING!!!

How to make metal more reflective?

I wanted to make a realistic car for a long time, I tried out many ways to perfect the reflectivity of the material on the car. I turn the reflective scale up but, the metal is not so reflective as I think. I’ve tried turning up the EnvironmentalSpecularScale to 1 I’ve tried turning up the EnvironmentalDiffuseScale to 1 Here is the result: [ReflectiveObjects.PNG] It did it’s job but it’s not as reflective. Metal: The EnvironmentalDiffuseScale definitely made a big change but, the reflectiv…

This topic is finally now solved!!

@Scottifly

Right now having each Part reflect every other Part around it as well as the Skybox would take so much computing power it would probably melt your CPU.

As @Scottifly mentioned. Will this take up a lot of CPU?

[wesc0bar]

Had a lot of trouble getting it to work. Restarted multiple times and then it magically started working.

This is obviously insane overkill but it’s pretty cool in motion.

Video Link

[Minstrix]

Use this button and then select the file.

[TheCrypticRunner (Cryptic)]

The reflection maps make (exterior) buildings look so bright that they’re brighter than their own neon. It works outdoors, but the maps are extremely close to buildings and they usually don’t change. They keep the color of the environment they were in like a million years ago and slap it everywhere (that the pathetic lighting’s render distance can contain)

(super bright building, much brighter than it’s supposed to be)

(red for no reason)

I hope there will be a way to make this work outdoors and that this will actually work when it comes out. I also hope it reflects SurfaceUIs because my game uses them alot for neon ads.

[filiprodak]

I decided to try and use SurfaceAppearances to see if i’d get a better result and now the effect looks way more promising

[iSyriux (Oneironaut)]

One problem I have with this is that it updates incredibly slow, and it doesn’t work unless there is a thick roof above it. This means things like streetlight poles in the open sky will not reflect, and things that do reflect do not show real time character movement, which ruins the effect entirely.

[Optikk]

This doesn’t seem to work at all for me. I’ve created a very thick-walled room and put some objects in it, added various reflective balls with PBR and without, added lights, and the skybox is still the only thing being reflected. Yes, the beta’s enabled. Yes, EnvironmentalDiffuseScale and EnvironmentalSpecularScale are both set to 1. Is anyone else unable to get this to work?

[Polyhex]

@ConvexRumbler

We do not want to introduce a special instance that has no basis in the real world, so we are not going to go in this direction. This keeps some doors open for the future where we eventually want to have a system for reflections that:

• Takes no effort to set up
• Automatically works with dynamic environments

In future, we would like to create a system that would place “just the right amount” of probes in the world automatically for the creator.

I feel like this sort of mindset is one of the biggest divides between developers & Roblox’s “vision”- we’d most certainly rather have control over these things for artistic reasons rather than having it done automatically or to “emulate realism”.

Stuff like StreamingEnabled, where Roblox insists on having the engine automatically do things their way with no say from the game creators, is a little frustrating, and I think it’d be nice to have the option to place probes ourselves; that way developers can actively make their games the best they can possibly look, instead of having the engine assume what the game should look like.

[eitan3085 (SheTookTheKids)]

I can see why this is in beta.

[Native_Clouds (Clouds)]

I hope that reflection quality gets better, It’s already frightens me to look at.

[loly_lolycmyk (loly)]

Try using the Metal material in Roblox Studio for the part.

[Mimi_Dev]

This isn’t working at all…

The ceiling is thick. I’ve tried with brighter lighting too and it doesn’t help. What am I doing wrong?

[ItsKoiske (Koiske)]

Make sure you have the beta feature enabled in studio.

If you do, set your lighting technology to future. If that doesn’t work then maybe try adding a brick to the bottom instead of just putting everything on a baseplate?

[Mimi_Dev]

Yes, the beta setting is on. I’ve also got specular on. I’ve tried in multiple room sizes and shapes with floors and without I’m getting the same result everywhere.

Edit: I’ve also tried a black skybox, played with ambience and tried different materials. Nothing is working.

[Pokemoncraft5290 (Based)]

It is working right, just very dark.

That is not a skybox.