image texture and reflection

Question

hello blender fanatics :) I wanted to ask if anyone knows how I can apply reflection to a plane with the image texture, assuming that I have a monitor screen and that on the screen I applied an image as a texture, how can I make this screen reflect the what's in front?

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  • Sascha Feider(SFE-Viz) replied
    Solution

    There are multiple ways as usual but the simplest would probably be - assuming you run the image texture through the principled BSDF - to decrease the roughness. A more accurate way would be to add a coat (clearcoat before 4.0) withing the principled BSDF and play with it's roughness. That would be a more accurate way as the coat gets applied kind of as a top layer on the image.

    You could of course also mix shader a glossy bsdf in and play with it's values and the mix factor, but why get so complicated. ;)

    Of course it always depends on the use case - realism vs. stylized etc.

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  • Ionut Horju(IonutTT) replied

    Oh I see, thanks, i was overcomplicating 

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