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@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Reflection probes are used as a source of reflected and ambient light for object
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A probe of this type captures the surroundings (as a sort of 360 degrees image), and stores versions
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of it with increasing levels of *blur*. This is used to simulate roughness in materials, as well as ambient lighting.
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-While these probes are a efficient way of storing reflections, they have a few shortcomings:
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+While these probes are an efficient way of storing reflections, they have a few shortcomings:
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-* They are efficient to render but expensive to compute. This leads to a default behavior where they only capture on scene load.
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+* They are efficient to render, but expensive to compute. This leads to a default behavior where they only capture on scene load.
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* They work best for rectangular shaped rooms or places, otherwise the reflections shown are not as faithful (especially when roughness is 0).
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Setting up
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Create a ReflectionProbe node and wrap it around the area where you want to have
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This should result in immediate local reflections. If you are using a Sky texture,
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reflections are by default blended with it.
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-By default, on interiors, reflections may appear to not have much consistence.
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+By default, on interiors, reflections may appear not to have much consistence.
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In this scenario, make sure to tick the *"Box Correct"* property.
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.. image:: img/refprobe_box_property.png
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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ a box the size of the probe:
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.. image:: img/refprobe_boxcorrect.png
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Adjusting the box walls may help improve the reflection a bit, but it will
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-always look the best in box shaped rooms.
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+always look best in box shaped rooms.
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The probe captures the surrounding from the center of the gizmo. If, for some
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reason, the room shape or contents occlude the center, it
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@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Interior vs exterior
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If you are using reflection probes in an interior setting, it is recommended
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-that the **Interior** property is enabled. This stops
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+that the **Interior** property be enabled. This stops
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the probe from rendering the sky and also allows custom ambient lighting settings.
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.. image:: img/refprobe_ambient.png
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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ When probes are set to **Interior**, custom constant ambient lighting can be
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specified per probe. Just choose a color and an energy.
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Optionally, you can blend this ambient light with the probe diffuse capture by
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-tweaking the **Ambient Contribution** property (0.0 means, pure ambient color,
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+tweaking the **Ambient Contribution** property (0.0 means pure ambient color,
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while 1.0 means pure diffuse capture).
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Blending
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@@ -87,12 +87,12 @@ Multiple reflection probes can be used, and Godot will blend them where they ove
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As you can see, this blending is never perfect (after all, these are
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box reflections, not real reflections), but these artifacts
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are only visible when using perfectly mirrored reflections.
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-Normally, scenes have normal mapping and varying levels of roughness which
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+Normally, scenes have normal mapping and varying levels of roughness, which
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can hide this.
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Alternatively, Reflection Probes work well blended together with Screen Space
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Reflections to solve these problems. Combining them makes local reflections appear
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-more faithful while probes are only used as fallback when no screen-space information is found:
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+more faithful, while probes are only used as a fallback when no screen-space information is found:
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.. image:: img/refprobe_ssr.png
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Rémi Verschelde