Screen faces

Screen is a choice in the Surface row. It puts the mirrored scene view (what Mirror shows, pixelated into LCD cells) on the largest flat face of the fig.

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Chunky TV in the scene

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The Surface row

Select a placed fig on the Figs tab to see the Surface row (Matte, Mirror, Water, Screen). See Shiny surfaces for how the surfaces work. Screen shows that reflection solid, in LCD pixels, instead of a see-through reflection. Screen is hidden for pieces stuck on walls or made from a picture (cutouts).

What the screen shows

Screen draws a second picture of the scene. That picture goes on the face, about 96 pixels across its long side. The face is picked for you: the largest flat one. Faces that point the same way and line up count as one screen.

The limit

Screen counts toward the scene’s limit on shiny surfaces. A scene can have at most two Screen, Mirror, or Water copies at once. Going over shows a message asking you to set one back to Matte before adding another.