Easy MIRROR MATERIAL in Blender for Cycles and Eevee!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about this tutorial in the comments below! :)

[@shamspahlowan6851]

Can we do this in eevee?

[@JayHawk4372]

@@shamspahlowan6851 they literally showed how

[@JayHawk4372]

I have a question. Os it possible this trick could work with making windows in eevee

[@inexy3138]

hey! great video but how to get only reflections with surface transparency

[@vinfinityremakerguy]

I also didnt use a reflection plane as it still showed results

[@balazssrancsik1691]

Man, are you reading mind or something? Second time it happens, that I have an issue and your video just pops up and serves the need! Thanks a lot! :)

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - I think you and I just happened to be looking for the same thing at the same time :p

[@Arithen]

For those struggling to get any results. Make sure Screen Space Reflections are on in the render settings

[@elliot_daniels]

thank you do much i was so confused

[@MarvinG42]

Screen Space Reflections are a different way to get reflections however these are by far not as accurate as done with Light Probes, if you don't get reflection with Reflections turned off, there might be something wrong elsewhere, most likely the correct positioning of you Light Probe.

[@jams2blues]

You rock dude! Thank you for the tutorial, I didn't know this could be done and It helped me create a mirror box.

[@og_killerlee9833]

Thank you! Great work! I can render mirrors now. I like the way you explained what was going on while you showed us what to do.

[@JasonReedphotography]

This was a perfect video! It explained clearly and concisely exactly what I was looking for in a way that I will actually remember. Thank you for doing that you do. Keep it up!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sweetcorn1936]

Iv been doing blender 3 days now I have burning eyes feeling tired but feel it will all be worth, watching all your videos, feeling exhausted, amazing talent mate u have

[@CosplayZine]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks for making these so straight forward. It really has helped a lot.

[@Termite_Studios]

Woah thank you so much, you all have a tutorials about every problem that I encounter in blender

[@professordeb]

That's awesome....I've been trying to figure this out forever. Thank you!

[@AthenasPlayhouse]

Thank you for including the evvee section! My PC only likes eevee right now lol

[@thunguyenthanh6989]

Oh my god !!! THANKYOU SO MUCH !!! i was in trouble with this!

[@lostmarble540]

I am so glad you demonstrated how to do this effect in eevee, my potato pc did not like cycles

[@sarahashemi6521]

Thank you so much. All of your tutorials are great 💖

[@NorbertoSJ]

In spanish comunity does not exist someone who xplain that like you, Muchas Gracias Primo

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@mfrazeehvacc5012]

I did not know how t do this. Thanks again!

[@icbfan7]

You're great! Thanks for the great videos!

[@Sapfyra]

super cool explanation! thank you a lot!

[@JigsLionheart-ne8kc]

Amazing! Really helpful.

[@naramamedowa9564]

Great tutorial. Thanks.🥰

[@webtron44]

This was exactly what I needed. Thank you for the video.

[@sharmaman1]

Perfect for what I was after, thanks!

[@BawonoSA173]

So, TL;DR version: 4:20 Reflection in EEVEE = Light Probe, reflection plane (for this one) THANK YOU! BTW what about the Cubemap one, and Irradiance vol.? How to use it?

[@adial-beni43]

easy & great illustration.. thx.

[@lejocarry]

Wow that was really nice and short. I love that ! Thank you ♥

[@Guilherme5988]

Great video! Learned a lot!

[@Kimb4000]

Very neat.... I'm going to try this!

[@nonwilson5587]

I am so grateful for this. Thank you 😊💓

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DBMN]

thanks for this! finally Mirrors in Eevee :D

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad I could help!

[@partienmission]

I also struggled with Eevee and I discovered that my problem was caused by the roughness value of Glossy BSDF. It doesn't works with a value of zero(0). It worked perfectly with a value of 0.005. In addition, Screen Space Reflections is absolutely not nessary. I use version 2.93

[@prod.MRBLOXY]

Thank you so much!

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@sebbasti4n]

Amazing amazing tutorial tysm!! is it possible to make the image in the mirror to be seen upside down?

[@Vaerah]

Very helpful, thanks.

[@mastipoint2o]

Thanku for this help, I am doing a short movie in which a parallel mirrors shot were required but cycles takes 1hour to render one frame. This will helps a lot.

[@juliethquiceno5684]

Thank you sooo much! 😻

[@Milan23_]

Woow amazing!

[@kiranakepakisan3260]

Thank you! Didn't thought it would be that simple 😅

[@evelyns3dshop]

thank you soo much for the tutorial!

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem 😊

[@Hepworks]

so in my impatience, I started and got nowhere, then read a few comments and got a little farther, then watched the whole video...might learn patience one of these days. thanks!

[@seba3151]

Life saver dude! Thank you so much!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Happy to help!

[@user-hr9jv5rd8k]

Saved my life ❤❤❤🙈 thank you

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped! :)

[@beastaroxstudio9848]

great video I just solved the issue through is thanks a million

[@prokim1223]

Very good Exelent. you are brilliant. God genius. Thank you for saving me. You are an angel!!!

[@SeantheShort]

Ermm, you misspe;leled "Exelent"

[@undgs1225]

thank you. this is what aku cari selama ini..

[@yamlynn]

10 / 10 video thank you very helpful

[@hackercop]

This was really helpful thank you. New sub!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@bobeep6242]

Thank you! Keep up the good work!

[@Madsofian]

You're soo goood!

[@FahadanKhalid]

Thank you so much mr CG essentials very helpful and straight forward

[@ThatNgaxx]

Your vudeos are wesome thanks

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thank you!

[@badblaze7634]

Thanks for the straight forward tutorial!

[@rpbmpn]

Super helpful, thank you.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@andybandy3738]

Thank you, helped me very much

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@carsonlohr2781]

Amazing!

[@TauranusRex]

"WHATS up guuys - Justin here with theeeeeeeeeeese...." love it :D

[@TheCGEssentials]

😎

[@colinrichman4812]

Excellent - thank you very much

[@LindaSyc0715]

Thanks for your tutorial. Is there any way to export a mirror in gab file?

[@Nickel-W]

Thank you for teaching

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@rbrown2925]

Super curious to know what (if anything) happens with parallel mirrors…or mirrors at right angles…

[@aplogaming3619]

Thank you for this!

[@TheCGEssentials]

No worries!

[@markoslavicek]

Is there any way to make the eevee version (with the reflection plane and light probe) work for infinity mirrors? Or do infinities only work in cycles?

[@fairyangel931]

thank you so much in EEVEE part...；；

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem!

[@georgeflores3361]

THANK YOU MATE

[@muditsingh1653]

My rendered view shows the full reflection in evee but when i render the image.... Theres no reflection or even the reflection plane..... I dont know what has gone wrong

[@LangstarrStudios.]

When I turned the roughness down, it's only reflecting the world and not the model that I have in front of it. Any tips?

[@prokim1223]

hi, again.I used this prefectly. but for only one mirror. If I try to make second light probe for second mirror, Blender 3.01 does not response anymore. Do you have any idea about this?

[@bashinspace]

thank you for this fantastic info. subbed :)

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks for the sub!

[@fabianogama39]

The reflection plane didn't work for me.

[@yanndbs]

Thanks !👍

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem!

[@miraloaqui6495]

Thank you so much human of light 🌍😁🍞

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@miraloaqui6495]

@@TheCGEssentials Do you have some premium course made by yourself?

[@inexy3138]

hey! great video but how to get only reflections with surface transparency?

[@aniawoloszczuk2304]

LOVE IT

[@rocklobster3956]

Thank you so much ^^

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem 😊

[@IvanSCP]

This works, but not at all angles. I placed the camera on the side, but in the render only black color (

[@TheCGEssentials]

I don't see why camera angle would affect this...

[@IvanSCP]

🤷🏻

[@cassianoeberhardt]

Hi! the plane that is gonna be the mirror must be receiving light from a "shift+a > light" object, try that and move the reflection plane near the surface of the mirror object, it also helps to check the shadow and contact shadows box ;) my insta @cassianoebe

[@tkxs]

this works!!

[@andreasweckemann7347]

hi ... but how can i hide the reflection of the lights in the mirror in cycles ? is there any way to hide the two lights ... the two white boxes ?

[@nuttaphoanimation]

thank you so match

[@TheCGEssentials]

You're welcome!

[@progettazione_case_moderne]

many thanks 🇮🇹🇺🇸✌👍

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@JackalBlender]

Be sure to modify the Screen Space Reflections values in Eevee engine to remove artifacts and "crop like" effects ;) (in case it happens on your scene, of course)

[@robvimu2859]

hello friend, could you tell me how can I hide the area lights so that they can't be seen through the mirror material? I have almost the same scene but I don't want those area lights to be visible through the mirror, but still illuminate the scene, could you help me please?

[@philippe.dubost]

How can I create an infinite reflections with Bounces in Eevee Blender 3.0 ? Somehow the render properties and Light path options changed Thanks a lot for this 😀

[@emeth1798]

Great tip thanks for the tutorial. Have you tried this with environmental HDR background for your lighting? And does the light probe have any adjustments if you don't want full reflection? Someone might want a partial reflection for certain applications.

[@TheCGEssentials]

I'm not sure I understand the "partial reflection" request - why would you want partial reflections?

[@emeth1798]

If you have something metal that is not totally clear like a slightly brushed silver tea pot or similar items. I call this a partial reflection or maybe a blurred one. The HDR environment map while the transparency is turned off in the render tab sill reflects on objects like the hood of a car or window. You can see the world map slightly blurred on the hood of the car. I am trying to figure out how you turn of the world HDR map from any kind of reflection and still have the objects near the tea pot or car door have a slight or blurred reflection on these objects? But this may be a question for the forums.

[@Hawkium]

thank you!

[@TheCGEssentials]

You're welcome!

[@user-yb5ft3kw5j]

if i want to moving the mirror object, how to link the reflection plane?

[@mredricman2046]

Hello, I appear to be having a problem. Whenever I go to change roughness, there’s no slider. I think it may be set to the wrong type, but I’m not sure.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Do you have a map plugged in to roughness? If you have a map, then it's driving the value so you wouldn't have a slider...

[@claudioceroni8028]

i have a scene with multiple collections, so if i don't select one to render in eevee from this plane it doesn't reflect anything, is there a way to reflect all the collections?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Are they turned on in your render?

[@commandoslayer]

I am struggling to make floor reflections.

[@smileymadness]

Thanks brother

[@МаксимУханкин]

Thank you)!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Welcome!

[@basspig]

How come a light in front of a parabolic mirror does not cast a beam in Blender? It works in Mental Ray in maya.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Are you using cycles?

[@basspig]

@@TheCGEssentials Yes. When I did this in Maya with MentalRay, the parabola reflector object cast a beam on a flat matte surface. But I was unable to replicate this in Cycles.

[@TheCGEssentials]

@@basspig I don't know the answer to this one. You might want to try posting something on the BlenderArtists forum

[@basspig]

@@TheCGEssentials I did and they told me that Cycles is a path tracer not a ray tracer and that's why it doesn't work.

[@thesdfable]

how to enable the visibilty of the lights in the mirror

[@ContentBombing]

Helpful thanks

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem!

[@kevinlapeyre5174]

Thanks you !

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem!

[@melfeliciano8449]

Can you make the light fixtures invisible to the mirror without affecting the light?

[@TheCGEssentials]

I think so - try this - blender.stackexchange.com/questions/17910/how-to-make-a-cycles-light-emisson-object-invisible-to-the-camera

[@melfeliciano8449]

@@TheCGEssentials That is for Cycles. How can I do that in EEVEE?

[@valtito9297]

can you show me a way that the mirror does not reflect the two hidden area lights

[@cassianoeberhardt]

Hi! the plane that is gonna be the mirror must be receiving light from a "shift+a > light" object, try that and move the reflection plane near the surface of the mirror object, it also helps to check the shadow and contact shadows box ;) my insta @cassianoebe

[@gabisaintro]

yes, it is help me. i'm viewer 76.697. thanks a lot

[@TheNerd]

yeah and now the phiscally correct way would be great :D

[@bill392]

Seems to me that the EEVEE solution leaves a lot to be desired. First, you have to create a new object (the probe) and position and scale it for every surface that you want to be reflective. I'm assuming that you can parent that object to the reflective plane so if you move it, the reflection probe goes with it. Second, is the reflection probe only available as a flat plane? Personally, I'd prefer to get rid of the separate plane objects entirely and have the reflective probe available as a material or shader option that could then be applied to any object. Problem solved.

[@TheCGEssentials]

This is a pretty standard solution in most real-time rendering programs due to limitations in software at the moment. I don't think it can be done with a shader because it's specifically telling the engine where to calculate reflections from an area standpoint, but it's really not a lot of extra work. In fact, it kind of makes you actually think about where you need to see reflections in your renderings...

[@anastas1ja6]

THANK U!!! i will show homework in college

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@Pyramid_Skeem]

Genius!

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)