Help with big mirrors!

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Hello,
I’m having problems trying to get clean reflections from big mirrors in a room.
I have tried the SceneCaptureCube technique but this only works well with small mirrors. Any ideas for big ones?

Thanks in advance!

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You would probably need to use a 2D reflection capture actor–the other reflection actors won’t be as accurate.

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You could use planar reflections, another technique is to replace the mirror surface with glass then copy the room and scale it by -1 and put it at the other side of the glass so it looks like a mirror but its actually just a window, in a lot of cases this is cheaper than using planar reflections also :smiley:

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Thanks! if you’re referring to a SceneCapture2D, that doesn’t work too because when I move further away from the mirror, it looks that the reflection is being zoomed.

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Thanks! I was actually thinking about doing that but the problem is that I have another room on the other side of the wall where the mirror is hanged.

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I’m looking at other alternatives and maybe a portal giving me the view from the same room might work?

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Ok! after some more experimenting, planar reflections is the way to go! Is there a way to make the reflections less jaggy?

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Yep, welcome to my struggle. My reflections are jaggy as well even with screen percentage for planar reflections at the highest vaule.