Yes, caus you only reflect one object , but try to reflect 5 detailled
animated fightes with bump mapping , and more objects like colums,chairs,tables,
etc ...

Well, have a look on Acknex Ressources, I published some years ago a simple tutorial how to fake mirrored terrains (water).


Today it should also work since we got now polygonal collision detection, so we dont need the invisble terrain for collision anymore

sounds interesting

I know this topic relates to mirrors for all versions, but for pro users, you would think that the mirror feature would be a perfect solution, well speaking for myself, and maybe for my lack of understanding but certainly not for my lack of persistance, I have come to the conclusion that it simply does not work.

I couldn't tell you the amount of hours I studied, tested, and tried to get the mirror feature to represent a mirror surface. Floors mirrors with pro, yeah sure no problem, but getting them on walls, thats entirely different trick. It seems kinda funny too that the manual would give a floor mirror example and not a wall, I mean, other than shiny floors, why wouldn't I not want mirrors maybe in a bathroom, or bedroom area in my game. I really feel like the floor example was the easiest to get the feature working, but it still doesn't work for walls.

When I was covered for tech support from conitec, I presented an email literally begging them for a step by step tutorial on how to use the mirror feature for a wall mirror, basically all I got was read the manual.

Needless to say, I didn't give up, and after many hours of trying one thing after another, I was able to succesfully use the feature to create a mirror on the floor, south, and west walls. Why I cannot make the mirror on the north and east wall, I will probably never figure out, but it still bumms me to this very day that I feel I really didn't get what I paid for.

If I ever do figure out the proper technique for using pro mirrors for a mirror surface on any wall whether it be, north, south, east or west, I will most definately post it in the tutorial section.

Thanks for listening to me rant.

-raiden

If you do, please post. I'd be very interested.
I have always wondered about how mirrored surfaces in the Pro version look but haven't seen any examples that I can recall.
I while back. I almost upgraded to Pro just so I could have decent mirrors without having to fake it.

Yes, please post your results.

You make a good point. But there is still a lot that can be done...
Here is an early shot of a level where I did this a lot. The "reflections" can be sprites or very low-poly versions of the level objects, which reduces the FPS hit.

I have refined it a lot from this shot, but you can still see that it does give the illusion of a reflection.
Regards,

"Floors mirrors with pro, yeah sure no problem, but getting them on walls, thats entirely different trick. It seems kinda funny too that the manual would give a floor mirror example and not a wall, I mean, other than shiny floors, why wouldn't I not want mirrors maybe in a bathroom, or bedroom area in my game."

Interesting to know. Mirrors is one of the reasons I would upgrade to Pro (file packer - so someone can't dissect your game, especially if you paid for scripts and some models would be another).