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P3D v4 Environment Reflections on exterior reflective materials

lionheart

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Hey all,

The only way I know of to make reflections on the wings and fuselage of my planes is via the reflection maps.

Is.... it... possible... to reflect the 'real environment?'



Bill... of the gray, shiny, metallic gray eyebrow people... who bend polys for a living..
 
Tekica123

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I have no idea if anythings is different from scenery design, but try adding cube map, p3d v4 supports dynamic reflections, add specular map I think to the wing and fuselage texture, set your settings in ModelConverterX correctly.
 
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It sure is - but not within FSX. It says so right in the FSX SDK:

It is certainly possible to generate real-time updating cubic maps, but this would require processor cycles and a constantly updating texture buffer; both of which would have detrimental effects on performance.
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So, yeah, it was too prohibitive 13 years ago when FSX came out, but with new graphics hardware these days, it probably wouldn't be as much. It would definitely require access to code base, and it seems P3D has done just that. You CAN define your own cube maps - I've done it, but the process is quite involving.
 
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Bill, IIRC, you just compile your mdl calling the default reflection map, then in P3D you go to Options > Lighting (!?) and turn Dynamic Reflections ON to something at least Medium. And hey presto, at least on my rig, you get them. Place yourself close to the markings of a runway and see if they are reflected. If not, let me know, I'll re-check here. Mind you, the effect isn't all that overwhelming, and possibly costly frameratewise.
 
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As Mjahn said, for P3D (I'm still on V3) it's simple. The thing to keep in mind is that you will need to have a different material for things that reflect in the interior model.

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lionheart

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mjahn said:
Bill, IIRC, you just compile your mdl calling the default reflection map, then in P3D you go to Options > Lighting (!?) and turn Dynamic Reflections ON to something at least Medium. And hey presto, at least on my rig, you get them. Place yourself close to the markings of a runway and see if they are reflected. If not, let me know, I'll re-check here. Mind you, the effect isn't all that overwhelming, and possibly costly frameratewise.
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AWESOME!!!!!! Many thanks, Manfred.
 
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