Greetings from Halifax...reflective glass?

[FBM]

Hello,

 

I work for an architectural firm in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We have recently purchased VIZ2008 along with other Autodesk products.

 

I have modelled a building being designed and have almost everything where I want it to be. I have taken images of the surrounding site and would like them to be refelcted in the glass.

 

I have created the glass material from an "architectural" template, but have no idea how to introduce reflections.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

 

Thanks,

 

Julien

[kippu]

you could put planes and apply the images that you want to be reflected on them and keep it opposite the glass walls

[FBM]

I use to model in 3dsmax in the mid 90s and I remember reflections being as simple as applying a reflection map to a material.

 

Can I apply reflection maps to Architectural glass?

 

If I do go the plane way, what kind of material should I create?

 

Sorry if these questions are not making sense,

 

Julien @ FBM

[FBM]

So I've got the reflections of the buildings working. Thanks.

 

What if I wanted some sky reflecting in the glass? Is there an "easy" way to get simple sky reflection in glass?

 

Julien

[kippu]

if you go through the plane method ... you can just make it any material //standard being the simplest and put the map in the diffuse map and apply it