Strength Variability
Chooses whether reflection strength is constant or varies with viewing angle.
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Reflect
Reflection and refraction material control
Controls reflective and refractive response for Fusion materials, including face-on/glancing strength and refractive index.
Reflect
DaVinci Resolve · Fusion
Reflect is a material-side node for art-directing glossy, glass-like, metallic or wet-looking surfaces in Fusion 3D.
Overview
What Reflect does
Reflect is a material-side node for art-directing glossy, glass-like, metallic or wet-looking surfaces in Fusion 3D.
Think of the material as having two viewing conditions: straight-on and grazing-angle. Reflect lets you define how the surface responds across that range and how light bends through it.
Mental model
Think of the material as having two viewing conditions: straight-on and grazing-angle. Reflect lets you define how the surface responds across that range and how light bends through it.
Common uses
Glass materials
Glossy plastics
Wet surfaces
Metallic highlights
Refractive design objects
Flow anatomy
Inputs & outputs
The port structure shows how this node fits into a Fusion graph.
Material Input
Material or texture data applied to the 3D object.
Reflect
Fusion node
Material Output
The processed result from this node.
Inspector
Important parameters
Start with these controls before reaching for more complicated workarounds.
Glancing Strength
Sets reflection strength at grazing angles.
Face On Strength
Sets reflection strength when viewed directly.
Falloff
Controls the transition between face-on and glancing response.
Separate RGB Indices
Allows red, green and blue to use separate refraction indices.
Refractive Index
Controls light bending through refractive surfaces.
Refraction Tint
Colors transmitted/refracted light.
Red / Green / Blue
Sets the RGB balance of the generated reflection.
Use channel-specific controls when the operation should not affect all components equally.
Material ID
Assigns an ID for downstream material selection.
Practical setup
A reliable workflow
- 1
Connect Reflect into the material graph.
- 2
Set face-on response.
- 3
Set glancing strength.
- 4
Adjust falloff.
- 5
Use refractive index and tint only when the material needs transmission.
Typical node chain
Source→
Reflect→
Output
Examples
Where this node fits in real work
Glass panel
Combine reflection and refraction in a glass material.
PhongReflectMaterialMergeShape3D
Glossy plastic
Use stronger glancing reflections than face-on reflection.
ReflectMaterialMergeRenderer3D
Troubleshooting
Common mistakes
Pushing Reflect farther than the source resolution can support
Animating several Reflect controls that fight each other instead of choosing one clear primary control
Judging Reflect edge quality only in a proxy or reduced-resolution Viewer
Production notes
Practical tips
Keep the main Reflect transform logic together instead of scattering equivalent adjustments across several nodes.
After a strong Reflect deformation, inspect image edges and alpha for stretching or resampling artifacts.
Preview animated Reflect work at normal playback speed as well as frame by frame.
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