Beyond DWF

[simon.swain]

After recently seeing an example of a tire rim that 'faked' reflections by using an environment map I have been pulling my hair out trying to get this effect in my Viz exports. We have already overcome the shadows and realistic lighting using texture baking but reflections are annoyingly absent and transparency has to be a non raytrace material - does anyone out there have the knowledge needed to allow me to export materials that retain the 'fake' reflection ability??

I'm new to the forum so please excuse me if this has been covered before (a thread in march 07 touched on the subject but ended before a resolution was found) - if so please give me the link to the thread or a key word to search for.

Cheers

[Anonymous]

I believe that the absence of certain materials (when published to DWF using
Viz or Max) is due to publishing issues on the design application side.

This is a known issue and being looked at, afaik.

wrote in message news:5841446@discussion.autodesk.com...
After recently seeing an example of a tire rim that 'faked' reflections by
using an environment map I have been pulling my hair out trying to get this
effect in my Viz exports. We have already overcome the shadows and realistic
lighting using texture baking but reflections are annoyingly absent and
transparency has to be a non raytrace material - does anyone out there have
the knowledge needed to allow me to export materials that retain the 'fake'
reflection ability??

I'm new to the forum so please excuse me if this has been covered before (a
thread in march 07 touched on the subject but ended before a resolution was
found) - if so please give me the link to the thread or a key word to search
for.

Cheers

[simon.swain]

Thank you for your response - Can you say with any certainty that this will be resolved for the upcoming release of '3DSMAX Design' (that we will be changing to, from Viz).

Is there a workaround??

Thank you in advance

Simon

[Anonymous]

I would need your DWF file and the original design files to confirm this
with somebody on the M&E side here.

wrote in message news:5860078@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thank you for your response - Can you say with any certainty that this will
be resolved for the upcoming release of '3DSMAX Design' (that we will be
changing to, from Viz).

Is there a workaround??

Thank you in advance

Simon