What's drawn on the reflection texture?

[LuneFox]

I noticed that all mirror-like parts reflect the same image regardless of the environment.
Is this a place from PSO2 or is it just a real life photo?
Looks like some bridge over a very wide river or lake, with some buildings on the island popping out in the backround.
(I hope I'm not the only one who paid attention).
I know only one place like that in Moscow :P

[AlMcFly]

That's pretty crazy! No clue but it looks like a real life image.

[Zaix]

Yeah I've seen it. It looks like a bridge to me also. Wonder why it reflects such a thing...

[Mag-X]

Not sure what it is, but all reflections are probably the same due to the amount of graphics power needed for a real reflection. The crappy laptop graphics processors most of you are using would eat their own face if they had to render real reflections.

[LuneFox]

More reflectons of the top:

[Zaix]

Not sure what it is, but all reflections are probably the same due to the amount of graphics power needed for a real reflection. The crappy laptop graphics processors most of you are using would eat their own face if they had to render real reflections.

I take offense to that... but really you're right.

Nah i really don't. My laptop has more power than the vast majority of desktops.

[Pyrii]

They probably took a picture and figured that it would do for a reflectionmap instead of doing real reflections. ANother common one is a room lit by daylight, the contrast of light and dark makes the reflections seem detailed.

Some games use a cubemap of each area for reflections too, which isn't hard to do, but then SEGA are lazy.

In the end, using actual reflections just requires a little effort and some shaders. But as mentioned before can be quite taxing on the GPU, so the middleground is what I said above with generated cubemaps.

EDIT: The OPs reference picture is rather... telling. Not sure I want to stare at that for too long :P

[RocSage]

I noticed that all mirror-like parts reflect the same image regardless of the environment.
Is this a place from PSO2 or is it just a real life photo?
Looks like some bridge over a very wide river or lake, with some buildings on the island popping out in the backround.
(I hope I'm not the only one who paid attention).
I know only one place like that in Moscow :P

What reflection? I don't see reflections

[GrandTickler]

isnt it just the reflection of that chamber?

[MrTurkleton]

To me it looks like the reflection is just a basic panorama of the side of a building on a pier.