Mirror Component - Mirror Colour ?

Hi Al\Rich

To what extent should colour of mirror affect colour of reflection ? in example below the background is affected but the object reflection only has a slight tint compared to strength of colour used. In a recent visual with bright conditions whatever I tried I could not seem to achieve any colour effect.

thanks

Boothy

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on July 16, 2010 at 12:17pm

Mirror color (like a lamp color) works as a filter. If a mis red, then only the red part of the objects reflected should be colored, everything else should be black.

However, your example is not working.

A colored mirror should work the same as any other colored, reflective material.
(There is nothing special about a mirror - we make a SketchUp material with the proper color and make it reflective. However, you can then change the material or reflection in SketchUp just like you would any other material)

I will check it out.
(Make sure you did not have "clay rendering" set or saturation set to 0 in the tone operator)

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on July 16, 2010 at 12:30pm

I forgot one important thing - Metallic

Metallic objects reflect in the color of the reflective object, non-metallic objects reflect in the color of the object being reflected.

Mirrors should be marked as metallic - to give a result more like this: