Creating Gradual Reflections

[leejk]

Hi,

I have a floor plane in which I want reflections to be more prominent in the center than on the edges. I have applied a gradient ramp map to the reflection slot of the floor material, but the problem is that the transition between no reflections and full reflections is a hard one. Even though the gradient is set up to gradually go from white to black, it still renders as a hard transition. Has anyone ever tried this before?

thx

[Morbid Angel]

are you working in linear space? you may need to gamma correct your gradient to reverse this effect. Also check the reflection cutoff value in the options of the vray material. Its default is set to 0.01 which is not enough for dark reflections.