What is with the photo when using a shiny appearance?

[jleonard2500]

Has anyone else noticed this? There is a clear photo including trees, a building and a parking lot clearly visible on the part when the appearance factor is set to 60 or more. How does one make this go away? I would rather not explain this everytime someone asks during a presentation.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

hi jleonard2500, 

This link should be of interest:

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2011/03/change-reflection-for-shiny-parts.html

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[jleonard2500]

Your links are blocked by our filters. Thanks anyway.

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

hi jleonard2500,

Here is the content of that link:

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

Change Reflection for Shiny Parts

Issue:

When you apply a shiny color to a part file you see what appears to be a parking lot in the reflective surfaces.  Is there a way to turn that off?

Solution:

You can change the Reflective Environment file to use a more subtle reflection image by going to the Tools tab and clicking the Application Options button. From there you click the Colors tab and then use the browse button to select a different *.DDS file to use.  I prefer the one called Chrome.dds.

The Parking Lot reflection is the default for many color styles:

 

You can change it to use something more subtle such as the one called Chrome.

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A good way to test each reflective environment file is to create a half circle and revolve it 360 degrees to form a sphere. This will allow you to see what the image contains or doesn't contain. Here the ParkingLot.dds shows one of the Autodesk developers on his motorcycle.

[jimmygunz37]

Thanks!

I dont recall having the issue of 'motorcycle dude' appearing in any of my Inventor drawings prior to 2020, i have been using since 2006; but see this is an old thread. Things like this (seeing this suddenly appearing in my reflective components) make me question Autodesks' decision calls.

I updated from 2019 to 2020 and when opened an existing file suddenly had a guy face/helmet/motorcycle smiling in all of my drawings. Stupid issues like this (along with revised GUI's) always make me regret upgrading.

Thank you for the solution!

James

[thenottakenname]

Motorcycle guy has been present since at least 2017, which is the year I started using Inventor. I don't see it as much of a problem, because a reflective surface needs something to reflect. It's also really not an issue worth having regret over, seeing as you change one option in the settings and you don't have to worry about it again.

[JDMather]

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@thenottakenname wrote:

Motorcycle guy has been ....

Trivia question: What was it before the Motorcycle Guy?

[jimmygunz37]

Not the point. I have now changed it, and glad there was a solution. Point
is - Autodesks' judgement calls... why a parking lot with cars and people?
why not keep it the way it was? or use another more 'non-descript' image.
When changing versions, 50 pages of custom drawings over multiple jobs
being reprinted have some dude smiling in the mirrored surfaces...smh
...just 1 of many bad 'upgrade' decision calls.

[VChampDK]

A river landscape. 🙂

[jyager]

Not something that was "changed"...that goofy motorcycle guy has been in the reflection for the past 6-7 years I've been using Inventor.

[whamlin]

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@VChampDK wrote:

A river landscape. 🙂

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...got a copy? How lang ago, or what version did it change please? I kind of like it. It adds a personal touch.