Hi everyone, I’m working on an animation and was having an issue with the water reflection.
As you can see from the screenshots after a certain distance the reflection changes.
I’m using Lumen for the reflections, so It has to be something about it.
I tried looking online for a possible fix but with no success. (messed around with some console viariables and post proecess volume mainly).
Thank You and hope someone can help me!
Hello there @Ghostface04!
From the look of your screenshots, it seems the reflection is getting “muted”, or losing quality between certain angles. Checking around the community, there are multiple values to tinker with, that could resolve this effect. Let’s cover them one by one:
- First, change the Reflection Mode to either Hit Lighting or HL for Reflection:
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Next, test disabling Nanite for your reflective meshes, if active
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Then, adjust your blend mode to Translucent
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Now, disable high quality reflections and screen traces from console command. These features can affect the quality of your reflections:
r.Lumen.Reflections.HierarchicalScreenTraces 0
r.Lumen.Reflections.HighQuality 0
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.ScreenTraces 0
r.Lumen.Reflections.ScreenTraces 0
- If that doesn’t work, set the values back to their previous state, and adjust the current setting for rendering the reflection resolution. Go to Project Settings > Engine > Rendering, and look for the Reflections option. From there, increase the resolution value to push your reflection quality:
If the issue remains active, there are further methods to improve Lumen reflections. I would suggest checking the following video guide.
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Thank you so much for the awesome response I appreciate your help!
I tried all the thing that you listed but unfortunately with no luck.
At the end I opted to change water material and It seems to have worked because the reflections works as expected.So I guess It was something about the material that made the reflection behave that way.
Thank you again for the detailed response and Im sure It will help someone in the future.
Have a great day!
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