Hi all. I wonder what would be the most correct way to comp reflection over a glass surface line a windshield or a telephone screen. Recently, I had to do that as the final touch of a comp and after creating a reflection pass on a black BG, I used Screen mode to comp it. But i was not happy with …

In my opinion, the correct way is the way that makes it look good and gets the shot approved! I LOVE screen comps…I mean…scromps (you’r welcome, @vfxjamie ). They are usually pretty straight forward, but I see so many online that are just janky. I have uploaded a scromps Batch Setup in the Logik P…

Thx. I will definitely have a look at flame portal as soon as I get in front of my machine. :slight_smile:

Thx. Would love to read your thought. :slight_smile:

Yes, nice. Simply didn’t think about lowering the highlights of my background plate before comp. will try that. Actually, I mostly need background added to reflection to not be brighter than reflection pass. I think then I should lower highlights of the background plate using the reflection pass a…

sorry silly question - where is the logik portal?

Going here and installing… [image] Logik Portal Python For anyone interested I just finished up this new script. It has a section to share and install python scripts and batch setups along with downloading all the latest Logik Matchboxes from the Logik Matchbox website. …

I have seen this but forgot!! thanks!

I’ve heard that ‘Screen mode’ was invented by John Knoll at ILM to simulate what happens when you optically add one layer to another, but for sRGB images in Photoshop. ( I could be wrong) So the correct way to add reflections is to literally ADD the image but in Linear color space because that’s wh…

There’s also the element of how reflections relate to 3d space as well, in regards to a camera move beyond a nodal pan. There’s all sorts of science and e=mc squares and whatnot involved, but I find I can think about, it in the most simple terms, as what’s reflecting in the screen is going to be tra…

Correct way to add reflection onto glass surface

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Going here and installing…

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Correct way to add reflection onto glass surface

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