Bits of Blender #39 - Environment Maps

[thunderk1995]

You know in blender 2.5 there is a thing where u can make the plan reflect anything above it right

[villeppi]

Why was my dad an alcoholic instead of a cool 3D guy?

[blenderguy2008]

Great, Great and useful tip! 5/5!

[bitsofblender]

@blenderguy2008 Thanks!  :-D

[AnsonAdams]

Isnt enviorment mapping for adding backgrounds? And is there a reason not just to make the plane reflective (Ray mirror)? Is it because the reflection takes more time to render?

Glad to see you're making more videos!

[bitsofblender]

@AnsonAdams Environment Maps are a way of faking reflections on an object. Think of it as an image map of the object's environment on the object to make it look reflective. The point of using one is to avoid ray tracing, which can be very expensive in terms of time to render.

[SEspider]

Great tip...I mean Bit. ;)

Never used Environment maps so this was a great lesson for me. Thanks Tons. ;)

Question for you.

Does the 'fake' reflection work well with curved surfaces? say the ground was curved instead.

BTW, Love that your son takes part.

[bitsofblender]

@SEspider Thanks SEspider! You can do a spherical reflection but not an arbitrarily curved surface.

[x2xHalox2x]

Same as using mirror....

Great tut

[THEAniKan]

How would I make a reflective material...?

[bitsofblender]

I'm not sure I understand your question. Do you mean with raytracing or what the Bit covers?

[THEAniKan]

I don't know what raytracing is.... but no this isn't related to the Bit.

I was just wondering if there was a combination of settings for a material to make it reflective. I've heard something about the Yafray renderer.....

[rewii93]

Hey !!! Glad to see that you are still making videos !!! Great tutorial.

[bitsofblender]

Thanks for the nice comment! It's good to be back :-)

[IMJACKMADDEN]

Got it at the second attempt. Thanks

[bitsofblender]

Good job! You're welcome!

[Littledude514]

I just want to say one thing...you mis-spelled environment..

[bitsofblender]

Would you believe that's the Dutch spelling? LOL, thanks for the catch Littledude514, I fixed it!

[Littledude514]

Yep! :)

[veggiet2009]

how was it spelled?

[bitsofblender]

I accidentally hit the the "t" in the middle of the word. How I missed it I can't tell you.

[THEAniKan]

Thx for the video!

I've been trying to figure out env maps for a while

[bitsofblender]

@THEAniKan You're welcome! We're glad to hear that it helped!