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MIRRORS

The trick with mirrors (or especially chrome-like objects) is not setting the attributes of the mirror correctly, but making sure that the environment is set up so something will be reflected into the camera.

If a mirror is TOO reflective, the mirror can actually become invisible! This is because the mirror's own flat glass/metal flat coloring is overwhelmed by all the reflected light. You see a PERFECT reflected image, so the object itself isn't shown. This is especially true with flat mirrors.

Some attributes that give a nice mirror polish:

                  RED  GREEN  BLUE   VALUE
   COLOR          150  150    150    *
   REFLECT        200  200    210    *     (a bit of a blue tint)
   FILTER         0    0      0      *
   SPECULAR       255  255    255    *
   DITHERING      *    *      *      255
   HARDNESS       *    *      *      255
   ROUGHNESS      *    *      *      0
   SHININESS      *    *      *      0


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