mirror ????? possibly stupid question

[THEOREM]

to produce a mirror material wouldnt you just set the reflection amount to pure white? im getting a perfectly black plane. any help would be greatly appreciated.

[filip]

Try flipping your normals, or try to tick reflect on back side in material settings.

[Olli96]

does the mirror has something to reflect ? if you just put a plane in your scene and apply a mirror material and leave everything then it will render black because of the black enviroment you got. throw in a couple of objects or an enviroment map to see if that helps. btw, i uploaded some of the vray shaders i collected over the past years in this forum or at evermotion.org. the matlib also contains a mirror material (which is actually quite simple) but will only work in max8, if you are intrested then go and grab them at www.olli96.net.

Olli

[aphex79]

You need something to reflect.. e.g a Hdri map, or a bitmap..

[kimgar]

...thansk a bunch for the shaders olli! they are excellent!

[jujubee]

Thank you Oli!