Metal effect?

[Christoph]

Hello!

I would like to know how i can reflect the environment of a rectangle for example. So that it looks like metal. I think there is such an effect in Irrlicht (SphereMap) but i don't know how to use it. Can somebody please help me?!


Thanks for advance!

[disanti]

Look at the techdemo. It uses that effect on one of the faries.
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[Honkey Kong]

It's probably a little bit late now, but if you're still curious on how to do this, here's some sample code:

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IAnimatedMesh* mesh = smgr->getMesh("modelFile");
IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* anode = 0;

anode = smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode(mesh);
anode->setPosition(vector3df(0, 0, 0));

anode->setMaterialTexture(0, driver->getTexture("modelTexture0"));
anode->setMaterialTexture(1, driver->getTexture("modelTexture1"));

anode->setMaterialType(EMT_REFLECTION_2_LAYER);
	
anode->addShadowVolumeSceneNode();
smgr->setShadowColor(SColor(50,0,0,0));

Just replace "modelFile" with the filename of the mesh you're loading, then replace "modelTexture0" and "modelTexture1" with your two texture maps, and your mesh should have a normal skin, and a reflection map. Hope this helps you out!