How to use Reflection Probes | Twinmotion

[@adamberg3459]

this video just saved my render thank you so much

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Glad I could help!

[@bendose6947]

I've been trying to wrap my head around Reflection Probes all afternoon, and this is the best explanation I've found so far. Looking forward to seeing your other stuff.

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Thanks Benjamin, glad I was able to help!

[@malakaivalentin6575]

i know Im asking the wrong place but does anybody know a method to log back into an Instagram account?? I was stupid forgot my account password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me!

[@maddermadder]

finally, someone explain how to make a mirror in my project. Thank you

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

You’re welcome 😊

[@ronheijnen2453]

Thanks, this is a great tutorial. One of rhe best...great job. Hope to see more tutorials.

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Hey thanks, Ron!!! Don’t worry, there are a lot more coming!

[@HippieP629]

Thanks a ton for this video. Helps a lot.

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Glad it helped!

[@guzilla01]

Thanks. That helped a lot. I thought it was just me that couldn't get them to work well.

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

No problem, yea it’s not just you.

[@theDIGITALKUNGFU]

22 minutes into it, and the scale and alignment is still driving me nuts!... I’ll keep watching...

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Scale and alignment of the reflection probes is tough I will say. Hard to get it super preceise.

[@gretheconnerth]

Hi there, thank you, it’s a really good tutorial and I learned what I was looking for. But for the love of god, please be more to the point and concise, as it’s a lot of ‘blab’ and no one has that amount of time. 🤪

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

I understand and I hear that from time to time. My philosophy is that I will spend more time to cover things is detail that no one else will. It is a matter of spending a little more time to learn a topic completely. I will take this into consideration though as I know everyone's time is valuable.

[@gretheconnerth]

@@ArchitectureVanguard Hiya, apologies didn’t want to come across too harsh. I’ll definitely check out more of your videos which are certainly appreciated! Cheers GC

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Believe me, I’ve heard more harsh haha. I take it as all constructive criticism. Thanks for viewing!

[@jamesgreen2495]

I hate trying to set up reflection cubes in Twinmotion. Glad saw this video and is not just me... I’m trying to set one up for a ocean scene and the box won’t go bigger than 50m. I get all weird stuff at edges of multiple boxs that dont join well and when i go from day to night in my day cycle animation all my materials shine a odd colour... :( wish would auto update. Setting up reflection maps in Eevee in blender is so much easier. brightness helps, didn’t know had so much effect, will look into that. Thanks

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

You’re welcome, reflections probes and pretty annoying but all essential unfortunately. I wish they could be larger and didn’t distort at the edges. I can inside they will be updated at some point.

[@adymaill]

... the source of the light reflects in glass and mirrors. We need an option to turn off the light source, so that it's still emitting light, but the light source is hidden on the reflection. Do you have any answers about this situation?

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Very interesting situation! If I were you, I would probably use a secondary light source to emit the light that does not appear in the reflection for that shot. You can toggle which lights are shown in which shot, which might be what you have to do. Hope that helps.

[@adymaill]

@@ArchitectureVanguard Thank you so much for your answer. Yeah we sort of have to try to "run away" from the reflections hahaha. It sort of solves the problem for now. I'm very thankful🙏

[@adymaill]

Hello ! Amazing explanation! I am so thankful. Just please help me out... when you want to make an inteiror scene where there is a large mirror showing the ceiling... and you just placed a light there...how do I make the source of the light disapear on the mirror just letting the light effect influence the area? Cause if I place a light area in there it appears a large illumination surface screwing with all the light spots ! Ahahahahahah.

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

See my other comment and let me know if that works. Thanks for the kind words!

[@jrpp3065]

Nice video! Thanks for spending the time doing them I have been doing some research regarding unreal engine and I think reflection probes project a reflection from their position in the scene, which means that in a render you should position the probe together with the camera to get a realistic effect regarding the floors and the walls (the materials). The issue is that then you lose the back of the objects... In Unreal engine is solved by putting different probes in the scene to make it work (I hope i managed to explain it in an understandable way, english is not my first lenguage) . I tried in twinmotion and it gets a bit messy. That overlap between probes is the reason why the transition exists. Everything gets very messy when you have to make a video, though. I am not 100% sure that the same mechanism applies to twinmotion but i think its worth giving it a try. I am no expert so I was wondering if you can explore a bit more since you look like you are trying to do good research on the subject. I can send you the link of the video where i got my unreal engine info from, but unfortunately it's in spanish: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXazXp6IqZaab7c

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

I do understand what you are saying, it is difficult to get them to work properly and look good from all angles. Especially for animations. I end up putting them in specific places for animations or hiding them where it would look weird. I have not used Unreal enough to know how they reflection probes work, unfortunately.

[@jrpp3065]

@@ArchitectureVanguard Thanks for your reply and for the content you put online

[@alejandroleyva1703]

hey. have you notice that after you changed the glass for a mirror and reduced the size of the probe (leaving the source of light out of the range) the reflection of the floor in the mirror is black (not reflecting the light), then, about the minute 17:22 when setting back brightness to 1.00 the reflection of the ligthbulbs, the poles and the floor are realistic while the light does not afect the steel in the poles out of the probe. You see what a i mean?

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Yea, it is a bit weird. You might play with the auto exposure by turning that off and adjusting the brightness of the reflection probe. Is there a particular look you are going after?

[@conmes3077]

Thx 👍🏻

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

You're welcome!

[@conmes3077]

@@ArchitectureVanguard 😊

[@antoniopiosaracino3702]

Thank you for the great Tutorial! I was trying to create the Dorste effect: mirror reflecting Into another mirror. But it seems it is not working. Do you think with reflection box should work?

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

You're very welcome, I would definitely try the reflection box at least. There may be other visual settings to achieve this but maybe not.

[@koskobrandon]

Hi, I have issues using the reflection tool. When I render an animation at night, the reflection probe makes everything white inside the cube but rendering during the day comes out fine... Would you happen to know how to fix this issue?

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

This means you will have to update the reflection probes. When you change the sun or anything like that you will need to update them. Before you render, make sure to update them all. There is an option in Twinmotion to update all reflection probes before exporting anything so you could simply turn that on too.

[@mahmuta2217]

1min in Lumion and Enscape but needs 34min tutorial to do in Twinmotion but still not good enough. :( Thanks for your effort.

[@joyddeyto5345]

reflection probes still not perfect in twinmotion

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

I do agree with you! They could use some work. Basically use them when you need them and strategically.

[@carlosdlguerra]

Basically I learned that reflection probes barely work and at the end are absolute garbage

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Ehh its a matter of how and when they are used but you dont have to use them. Check out the tutorial scenes built into Twinmotion.

[@rezasadeghi9614]

you talk too much..

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Sorry about that, Reza. Hopefully you did not watch too much of the video.