I once knew how to do this. Place primitives in the scene in front of the character, make them glow, and catch their reflection in the eyes.

I have a box in front right now, and actually have the eyes set to "point at" the box. In materials for the box I have diffuse, specular, and ambient all showing white, with ambient set to 10.

Renders not showing the reflection of the box in her eyes.

Can someone refresh me on this?

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i made some progress. Added reflection to the pupil. Not the iris or cornea.

Got the reflection, but the centering is not desirable. More fiddling needed.

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It's hard to tell what character that is .. but does it have an Eye Surface or Eye Reflection material? That's ideally what the reflections should be added to.

it's V4. There is a "eye surface" material. I tried it ... I like that it produced a secondary highlight in her left eye, but I think it is clouding the surface somewhat.

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Assuming this is for Firefly rendering, what does the Material Room shader look like?

Here's my latest render. Firefly. Starting to get control of this gambit. I'll post the materials node for the eye surface later today.

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