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AnejoDave

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I modeled a disco ball with hundreds of faces for a nightclub rendering.  The material used has been both mirror and chrome plated steel.  When I hit it with an intense spotlight I get no light reflecting off the ball.

Does Revit not support light bouncing off mirrors?

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If you check out this thread: http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=14632 you will see that Revit supported mirrors when it used accu-render.  I haven't done any recently so I don't know.

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AnejoDave

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The mirror itself works just fine.  The problem is that light itself does not reflect off the mirror.  I was trying for the tiny sparkles everywhere that come off of a disco ball.

What I was going to try for next was to make a new material that looks almost exactly the same as a mirror but lets light pass through.  Inside the ball I'm going to try putting a studio light and see what that does.

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