Will I ever be able to see myself in the mirror? Standing in front of an empty mirror freaks me out.
TL;DRMirrors are on the roadmap and needed for a couple of Squadron scenes, but because of the rendering cost they would only work in controlled, small spaces like bathrooms, not anywhere such as a city.
Yeah, so mirrors are definitely something we've wanted. I think we need them for Squadron for a couple of scenes, so they're definitely on our roadmap. The caveat is that they can only really be used in some sort of controlled environment. They trigger a lot of extra rendering work. So if you're in the middle of Lorville looking at an advert somewhere, and we just replace that advert with a mirror, you've probably just halved the frame rate. The advantage of bathrooms is that they tend to be small. So we can set up mirrors in places where we can already afford the frame rate to include the mirror, basically.
And if one of them is small enough to be grabbed and moved, people will grab mirrors and put them in front of mirrors. The things that people will do with mirrors in an MMO environment will see no end.
Yeah, movable mirrors would be a headache.