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Mirrors

by Travis Vroman · in General Discussion · 05/30/2004 (6:54 pm) · 3 replies

Okay, I'm looking for a way to make the mirrors in interiors (dif objects) not so clean. I have never looked into a mirror and seen a perfect reflection. What I want to do is be able to place a transparent texture over the reflection to give the appearnce of a dirty mirror. How is this done? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

-Barzahd
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Tony Lamba
#1
05/31/2004 (5:55 am)
Mirrors are done using quark and making a cube a mirror. Im not sure how to dirty it up. Maybe fake it by adding a transparent dts right infront of it. Too close and you may get z-fighting errors. Not close enough and it will be too obvious.

Associate Kyle Carter
#2
05/31/2004 (7:47 am)
You could also tweak the mirror surface rendering to do a tranparent poly over the mirror.

Torque Owner Cisor
#3
06/01/2004 (2:26 am)
Travis, Brett Fattori released a resource called "Masked Mirror Surfaces" which shows you how to do this.
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=4554

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