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Title: lake reflection wants to show color from lower surface layer
Post by: daveb105 on May 14, 2007, 01:08:36 PM

I have been working with a lake with 4 surface layers.

base color is dark grey.
surface layer 1 is lighter grey.
surface layer 2 is white, very high elevation. > 3500
Surface layer 3 is lighter green near tree level. 3100 > 3500
Surface layer 4 is dark green elevation lower elevation. < 3100

lake at 3207, water level 3625 (? not sure what this is really doing with water level, my camera is at 3215)

With surface layer 4 off, everthing works great.

Turning on Surface layer 4, the reflected images on the lake are green.

I have attached two images for examples

thanks

Title: Re: lake reflection wants to show color from lower surface layer
Post by: Oshyan on May 14, 2007, 03:53:50 PM

Unfortunately this is a known problem with the reflection system. It will definitely be fixed in a future update. In the meantime you can try changing the Slope Key in the Slope Constraints tab of your surface layers to Terrain Normal. This may or may not help.

- Oshyan

Title: Re: lake reflection wants to show color from lower surface layer
Post by: Buzzzzz on May 14, 2007, 05:12:05 PM

In addition to Oshyan's suggestion, something that has worked for me was to Check the "Use Y for slope" Slope Key in your Hgt and slope constraints tabs for all your surfaces.

Title: Re: lake reflection wants to show color from lower surface layer
Post by: daveb105 on May 14, 2007, 08:01:36 PM

Thanks for the input. It's good to know that I not completely lost my mind. LOL

Caio

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