planar reflection and HRDI?

[eltioseba]

just that, its posible to make a planar surface to reflect an HDRI?? because I`m dont having much luck.

[flipside]

yes of course but because the surface is planar it will only reflect a very small portion of the environment! And if it's pointing down a bit it will only reflect your floor and not your enviromap. So placement and viewing angle is very important.

[mike_kennedy]

To trick the surface there are a few things you can do. use a seperate version of the HRDI file in the VRAY relection slot and then rotate and tile it until you get the look you wanted. you might also have to distort the geomrey by using a noise bump map or by perhaps doign a VERY slight movement of a vertex on the surfce with a large soft selection toggled.