I am designing a copper top of a flag post.
How do i make the surface texture reflective, so that it can reflect every object and light in the environment?
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1$\begingroup$ How do you intend to use the texture in your shader? Could you specify which render engine are you using? What have you tried so far? Can you show something? $\endgroup$– CarloOct 28, 2017 at 16:48
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$\begingroup$ Related blender.stackexchange.com/questions/23906/… $\endgroup$– m.arditoOct 28, 2017 at 16:51
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$\begingroup$ I use the ultimate shader from engine 2.79. In the right pane, i tried to change the material. The item to reflect is a round skynode. $\endgroup$– user47681Oct 28, 2017 at 16:57
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$\begingroup$ You mean a metallic shader? $\endgroup$– LinguiniOct 31, 2017 at 1:14
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$\begingroup$ Do you intend to do something similar to an environment cue map? blender.stackexchange.com/questions/46891/… $\endgroup$– masterj2001Oct 31, 2017 at 9:24
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Enable cycles render and add a new Principled BSDF material for your object.
Set metallic to 1.
- Find the correct base color for your metal.
- Adjust roughness based on how sharp or blurry you need the reflections to be.
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$\begingroup$ I forgot to mention this in my question: My sprite engine does not support Cycles at all. $\endgroup$– user47681Oct 31, 2017 at 23:25
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There are two selection boxes to set to make reflection available. I'll show this on Blender 2.79
Properties -> Scene -> Shading -> Ray Tracing should be enabled.
Properties -> FlagPostTopObject -> Material -> Surface -> Shading
should have some value, or else you don't get the
Properties -> FlagPostTopObject -> Material -> Surface -> Mirror
pane on a fresh install of Blender.
Properties -> FlagPostTopObject -> Surface -> Mirror should be enabled.
You can pick the color to reflect. To make the surface fully reflective you set the Reflectivity to one. Depth is the maximum number of times a ray is reflected, if you have for example two mirrors facing each other. The reflection of light that the Fresnel equations predict is known as Fresnel reflection, but the zero you see in my screenshot next to Fresnel, is no physical constant. You can set it to two and the reflection diminishes. To make the material look like copper, you will have to experiment a little.
