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Hey

I'm having some troubles getting reflections of a pyro sim into a ground plane. everything was just fine, then I changed the sim starting from the shelf tool "candle", and for some reasons now I'm not getting any reflection whatsoever, I'm attaching my hip file, if you play through the fast sim and render a frame you will notice the ground is not reflecting the bright fire, and I'm not getting the reason...

cheers!

debug_refl_v001.hiplc

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There isn't supposed to be density in a candle simulation, unless you want visible smoke. The way the sim is set up by the shelf tool, it's not meant to emit any smoke.

I think the reflection issue is just one of angles and normals on a perfectly flat plane. If you use a Bend SOP to curve your grid into more of a curved cyc shape, the reflections work fine.

debug_refl_v002.hipnc

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