Components in mirror reflection

Ryan · Sep 29th 2017

Hey guys,

Been noticing a little hiccup in the system, and it could be entirely on my end. When the camera looks into a mirror, I get some components missing in the reflection on the other side of the room. Is there a certain rendering distance from the mirror? I'm on ultra rendering, but it doesn't see, to make a difference. The cabinet doors here are half there, half missing, sink and faucet are missing, and so on.

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Any info or takeaways would be appreciated!

Thanks

Clemens Musterle · Sep 29th 2017

Hi Ryan,

Enscape does some optimizations for ray traced reflections in order to be able to deliver real-time performance. Generally speaking smaller and more detailed elements might get culled as they usually don't have that much visual impact. So there's nothing wrong on your end - what you could try to do, if it is important to have all the details visible in the mirror reflection, is reducing the overall size of the scene and/or the amount of detail in your components.

Ryan · Sep 29th 2017

Ah I thought it'd be something along those lines considering bigger objects were there and smaller weren't. It's not a huge deal, I'll just keep it out of sight for the most part as I can't diminish the details. Thanks though!

Micha · Oct 1st 2017

For me it would be a big problem if parts of the scene are hidden at mirrors, since my clients don't like wrong looking effects. I would prefer an option to disable this kind of scene optimization and to live with slower render times or response time. The scene doesn't looks so complex so that it is needed to hide components.

Micha · Oct 19th 2017

Ryan : a workaround trick can be found here:

Wish: Special mirror SS calculation

Ryan · Oct 24th 2017

Quote from Micha

Ryan : a workaround trick can be found here:

Wish: Special mirror SS calculation

Thanks Micha.

From what I gather, you're duplicating the 'room' and flipping it to the other side of a window essentially, correct? The only thing is that we basically model the entire interior of any given house. Adding a 'reflection' of a room might get a little too messy at every point we put in mirrors.

Great tips though. I appreciate it.

Jonathan Knoefel · Oct 30th 2017

Ryan We'll have a look at this again. Lets see if we can optimize this somehow.

Ryan · Oct 30th 2017

Great. In the meantime, I'll just work around it with angles. Thanks for considering it!

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