Has any one experimented with Box Projection Correction Environment Mapping?

If I could afford Unity Pro, I'd just use a variation of the standard water shader, which has realtime reflection and refraction. In the meantime, I'm trying to find an alternative that at least looks somewhat convincing.

 

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It looks like someone already wrote a Unity implementation of this type of thing (a shader that combines billboard reflections with a box projected cubemap method), with full code provided: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/billboard-reflection.218139/

 

Thanks for the link. I should really have checked before getting all excited eh ? But to tell you the truth I wouldn't have done it in the way described as scaling to a high number of image proxies mandates massive drawcall addition ( atleast in forward rendering).

I'll update the other threads if I get something a bit more usable.

 

If you want more of a challenge.... here's a variation of the billboard reflection method which can render realistic-looking mutual reflections (the reflection 'bounces' back and forth between two reflective objects) for complex objects like the famous tea kettle model : in one screenshot, they've got two kettles mutually reflecting each other; in another one, the kettle reflects the Stanford Bunny. The following PDF explains the method, but doesn't give any code: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/cgvlab/papers/popescu/popescuGemEG06.pdf