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  1. #1
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    Default Chrome Butterfly

    Chrome environments in E3.

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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    Looks good Rich.
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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    Larry,

    A transparent environment that partially colors an object.

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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    the butterfly should be casting both reflection and shadow on the object below it
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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    I like the design it looks very professional

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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    they're not drawings as such Frank, they're environments - that is: think dispacement map, only different
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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    they're not drawings as such Frank
    yes, i figured that out, it just looks wrong for the reasons stated, that's all
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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    well only if you think of it as a representation of an insect above a base, rather than what it actually is meant for
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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    tell me, what is it actually meant for?
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    Default Re: Chrome Butterfly

    and I quote from the manual [because they put it better than me]:

    "While the embossed fill can create a smoothly shaded appearance that resembles an embossed form, Expression 3 currently does not provide a full set of controls for specifying the reflectivity, shininess or material properties for 3D shading. Even with a full set of parameters and controls for 3D shadings, realistic lighting effects would still be difficult to specify without a 3D environment. Expression 3 provides an easier solution: to allow arbitrary photorealistic lighting effects to be applied to embossed shapes using a technique known as reflection mapping. This technique uses a sampled image, called a reflection map or an environment map, which has recorded the appearance of a surface at all normal directions under a particular lighting environment. Such a reflection map serves as a look-up table for the appearance of the surface at any orientation. This technique is commonly used in 3D computer graphics and the film industry to give the most photorealistic lighting effects. "

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