Hello,

If you make a ground plane (for placing objects on) and set an environment map (HDRI spherical projection for instance).
And I set the diffuse for that ground plane as: environment with option screen. so that when I place an object onto the groundplane, the groundplane uses the environment as texture and is able to receive things like shadow on it.

But when I make a reflective object and place it on top of the groundplane if reacts as if the groundplane is an see-through (transparent) object.

sorry for this in 2010 thread, but i believe it is 3dsmax version consistent

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And I set the diffuse for that ground plane as: environment with option screen. so that when I place an object onto the groundplane, the groundplane uses the environment as texture and is able to receive things like shadow on it.

That’s why we have Matte/Shadow and mr Matte/Shadow/Reflection materials.
What exactly is it you are trying to do?
Those reflective objects in the render look as if they are reflecting a spherical environment, as I would expect.

Oujoushu

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I see now, it’s a sphere and a box, not a hemisphere and plane. It’s where they reflect the ground plane, you get per-pixel mapped reflections.
With mental ray, I do this using the M/S/R material for the ground, then apply the mr Camera Map shader to the M/S/R material, that gives you proper reflections.
So, are you using Vray to render?
I know you can’t do this with scanline, but it does work with mr. I can’t speak for Vray ‘cos I dont have it. I assume it has some similar tools to the mr production shaders.

I think you will need another Vray user to help with this. I only know how to do it with mr.

This is it with mr. Quite simple, just copy the environment to the MSR material that’s on the ground plane.

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Thanks for the trouble, making a scene for me:)
Still havent figured it out for v-ray (haven’t had much time to do so, vray manual and guide aren’t as specific. It has a matte material: VrayMtlWrapper. but still doesn’t do what I want.

Mailing Chaosgroup in half an hour or so

hi, in vray i think you have to use the override mtl and the vraymtlwrapper. in the override mtl you put your mtlwrapper as base material and in the reflection mtl you put your background mat…
in your wrapper mtl you set the option matte surface. hope this works for you…

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