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Adding reflections using environment

Adding reflections using environment

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Adding reflections using environment

- [Instructor] So this is what we have so far in terms of our 3-D extrusion. It looks great but it is quite flat. To improve that we will add reflections and textures using an environment layer. So go to the product panel and open up the source files, where you will find windows environment dot jpeg file. Go ahead and drag it to the timeline and we're going to use it as an image based lighting. So we are actually going to convert this layer to and environment layer and it will help us to create a better definition and a better look. To do so right click on this layer and choose environment layer. This will switch off the visibility of it and also convert it to a 3-D layer. Now make sure that you can see the material option over here and I mean the material option for the text, the five logo. So I'm just going to fold up everything that I don't need to see right now and I'm going to fold down the material options. In order to reflect this environment over here we need to change the…

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