For Cycles and combining Live Footage and Reflections...

[Softwarespecial]

Is there a built in way to take a live footage or photo and to have your 3D object and be able to add its reflection into the footage Using Cycles? Example I have live Footage with a glossy floor that is reflective. That is in the live Footage so I want my CG object to be reflected in that. I know in the normal Render Engine its there but I don't see it yet in Cycles? I saw the Shadow one and got that to work. Just wondering if its in and I am missing something or if it is not in the current release but will be later?

[dave62]

this is my setup for combining cg and real footage:


http://www.pasteall.org/blend/14240
You need to set your own footage and world texture (to big to attach).
Dont forget to run the tracker again and reconstruct plane etc..

[Daccy]

Good work dave! I didn't think it was possible to composite reflections without the use of BI. It's strange though, I tried a similar method some time ago and it didn't work. After I took a look at your file and tried again, voilà! Thanks a bunch!

Also, here's the method I used:



http://www.pasteall.org/blend/14241

[samiboy]

Very, very smooth. Really, really helpful Dave.

Crap. Now I've got to go back and change a bunch of files to get this in there!

Thanks again guys!

[Softwarespecial]

Dave62 and Daccy again thanks I will be testing this out later. So Sweet Totally thanks.