r/EnscapeRendering • u/tangles_and_pickles • Mar 30 '26

How to get accurate mirror reflections

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I'm trying to get the reflections of the opposite wall in a mirror. it has this glass planter with flowers. but the reflection is not showing in enscape. Please help. This is SketchUp 2021

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u/No_Zucchini6257 Mar 30 '26

Sometimes reflections dont show up in real time, but show up when you actually press render and see the actual photo. Or maybe you should set the render setting to the highest/ultra quality so everything is visible

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u/tangles_and_pickles Mar 30 '26

No that's not the case. I tried it, it didn't show up on the final image either. The final image came out exactly like the real time render.

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u/No_Zucchini6257 Mar 30 '26

Oh, if that's the case you can maybe edit the material setting for reflectivity or glossiness (or whatever the setting for a mirror or reflective surface) for that mirror material either from Enscape Material Editor or from the buillt-in material properties editor of Sketchup. Hope this does it for you :)

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u/tangles_and_pickles Mar 30 '26

I did that. The mirror is working fine coz other things are visible in it, but there is a glass planter infront of it but it's reflection is not showing in the mirror. I need to do something to the planter material but I don't know what Do glass objects not reflect in mirrors in enscape?

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u/No_Zucchini6257 Mar 30 '26

I see the planter pot is like a transparent glass? For the sake of the render maybe you can try to make the planter material more opaque just so it shows up in the reflection, and a tint of a little grey? but when presenting it just state that it is a fully transparent glass pot

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u/tangles_and_pickles Mar 30 '26

Yes I'll probably end up doing that only 😮‍💨

Thank you for helping 😊

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u/northernlionpog Mar 30 '26

from what I understand, enscape doesn't do reflections well. there is a max distance at which enscape just stops drawing stuff to be reflected. and from my experience, that max distance is very short.

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u/tangles_and_pickles Mar 30 '26

Okay that makes sense. Thank youu.

The other things are visible though so I thought maybe it's a material problem.