Mirror effect

Hi Folks..me again..can anyone help me with CreateMirror command? Problem is that I dont know how to apply this command on some objects on my scene what i want to be reflective. As I can see from tutorials, its always connected with create plane command, but there is no sample how to do that with object of my choice..in my case i wanna make reflective top side of desk on my scene, and few similar objects, including few different types of floor but on same Y position. how to fix this? Anyone can help?

I'm not totally up on the subject but CreateMirror may not be what you want. First of all, I think it doubles the polycount of everything in the scene, and secondly, I think it can only be on one plane.

Maybe you should look into cube-mapping.

Have a go with this thing I did quite a while back:

www.hi-toro.com/blitz/realmirrors.zip [165K]

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What's this ^^^ ??

Puki or JLB ???

??? eh! Puki and Boyd have fused together :O

Eko - The CreateMirror creates a flat plane floor to mirror your scene. The mirror image is created by rendering the whole scene from a different, reflected view . This doubles polygon count. To have mirrored object working this way would be EXTREMELY costly, every surface of every object needing a seperate rendering.

What you want just isn't done in computer games. Instead games use a workaround with sphere/cube mapped environment images that give the impression of a reflective surface, such as shown in the Teapot demo. By using the right textures you can give the impression of reflective chrome etc.

Oh, wait, "Puki" just reposted one of my posts. Don't do that, "Puki"... I'm easily confused. Thought I'd had one too many last night.

Thanks Shifty..I'mfigured out that createmirror is not something whats smart to do...already try your way, and its working well..thanks a lot..