Mirrors

[Stuartwhytcross]

Hi All,

I have created a small timber cabinet in Creo Parametric(academic edition) which has a mirror inserted into door.

I can't seem to be able to select a material that represents a mirror in the final render. The only option I can think of is to select glass and edit the reflective settings, however in the final render its still see through.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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[dschenken]

Transparency affects how easily you can see through a material.

I'm pretty sure the renderer in Creo Parametric is not a ray tracer; any reflections are only of the images that are placed on the walls, floor, and ceiling of the room environment in the render settings.

[gkoch]

Can you switch (in Render Setup) the Renderer from PhotoRender to Photolux?

The latter is a Raytracer and can calculate mirror reflections (for example for metal like surfaces)

Gunter

[gkoch]

Hello Stuart,

did one of our answers help you?

Can you please follow up with either closing the thread (mark a post as Correct Answer), sharing your experience with the issue or let us know, if the question is not yet sufficiently answered.

BTW: I created a simple example, building a mirror with two mated plates, one with PTC-glass appearance and the other in black, then place a bin front.

See below the results with PhotoRender (no mirroring) and Photolux (mirrored):

Photorender:

Photolux: