Reflection Textures (FBX)

A Reflection Texture is a realtime engine-generated texture that is represented by a dummy object whose user buffer presents a $ReflectionTexture structure.

• This texture is used to render realtime reflections.

• The reflection can also be blurred (Blurred Reflections.

  Note: It is not necessary to exclude the Mesh that use this texture from the rendering of the reflection (through the parameter szExcludeMesh) because the engine will do it automatically.

What is a reflection?

Code example

This is a code example for reflection texture.

$ReflectionTexture

{

szID = ReflectionTextureA

szTextureDetail = High

szGeometryDetail = Medium

iRefreshFrameRate = 2

c3BkgColor = 0.2 0 0.1

$Commands

{

szPlaneMesh = MeshPavimento

szExcludeMesh = MeshConTroppiPoligoni

}

}

Texture dimensions

If the dimensions go beyond the frame buffer resolution, the first power dimension of two that is smaller than the frame buffer will be chosen.

Parameters

szID

• Identifier (name) of the texture that will be created.

szTextureDetail

• Texture size.

• Default: high

• Range: [lowest .. highest]

szGeometryDetail

• The level of detail of the geometry rendered in the texture.

• Default: medium

• Valid values: medium, high.

iRefreshFrameRate

• Indicates how many frames the texture will be updated.

• If the value is zero (0) or negative, the texture will be updated to each frame.

• Default: -1

• Range: [-inf..inf]

c3BkgColor

• Color of the background.

• Default: 0 0 0

• RGB [0..1]

$Commands

• Structure that contains extra commands for creating and rendering the texture.

$Commands Parameters

szPlaneMesh

• Identifier (name) of the mesh that will be used as a reference for the plane of reflection, which serves to render the texture.

• Mesh can also be animated, but its vertices must not be deformed.

• Mesh polygons must form a single plane for rendering reflections to work properly.

• This parameter is necessary.

szIncludeMesh

• Includes this mesh in texture rendering; automatically excluding all other scene meshes.

• In practice, when using this parameter, you must manually specify all the meshes to draw.

• When using this parameter, its inverse (for example, szExcludeMesh) can not be used.

• This parameter is optional, and can be repeated multiple times.

szExcludeMesh

• Excludes this mesh in texture rendering.

• When using this parameter, its inverse (for example, szIncludeMesh) can not be used.

• This parameter is optional, and can be repeated multiple times.