# Is it possible to use video as a mesh reflection?
**URL:** https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** material
**Created:** [February 14, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582 "2025-02-14T13:59:02Z")
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### Author:  [@vlayd16](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/vlayd16)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582/1 "2025-02-14T13:59:02Z")
**Hi team,**
I wanted to check if it’s possible to display any video as a reflection texture for the mesh material.
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Something like this, but I want the mesh to have its own material—just with a video reflection instead of an environment reflection. Maybe even a video environment.
@Evgeni_Popov
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### Author:  [@Evgeni\_Popov](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Evgeni_Popov)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582/2 "2025-02-14T16:41:15Z")
You can assign the video to the reflection texture, and set the right coordinate mode to `coordinatesMode`:
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### Author:  [@vlayd16](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/vlayd16)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582/3 "2025-02-17T09:15:59Z")
Awesome, that works.
My only last question is that texture scaling doesnt seem to work in Projection mode:
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### Author:  [@Evgeni\_Popov](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Evgeni_Popov)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582/4 "2025-02-17T10:22:30Z")
Yes, that’s how this coordinate mode works. You can try to provide your own reflection matrix by overriding the `Texture.getReflectionTextureMatrix` method:
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I simply copied/pasted the bits of [Babylon.js/packages/dev/core/src/Materials/Textures/texture.ts at master · BabylonJS/Babylon.js · GitHub](https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/blob/master/packages/dev/core/src/Materials/Textures/texture.ts#L775-L845) which correspond to the “Projection” mode, and factored the uScale/vScale properties in the projection matrix.
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### Author:  [@vlayd16](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/vlayd16)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582/5 "2025-02-17T12:00:52Z")
Thank you! Works perfect
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### Author:  [@vlayd16](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/vlayd16)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582/6 "2025-02-21T09:12:33Z")
How would it be possible to rotate video texture with TEXTURE\_FIXED\_EQUIRECTANGULAR\_MODE
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I tried different option, but got no result.
The second option I wanted to try is to rotate TEXTURE\_SPHERICAL\_MODE
Even though that code works, but it appears that it actually rotates the sphere instead of charging the texture position, I just want to rotate the video by 30-180 degrees so that right corner of the video is in the center of the sphere
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@Evgeni_Popov
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### Author:  [@Evgeni\_Popov](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Evgeni_Popov)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582/7 "2025-02-21T10:01:02Z")
You can try to update our projection shader code to take into account some offsets.
Here’s one way to do it for the fixed equirectangular case:
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The projection code is in the `reflectionFunction.fx` file, so I simply copy/pasted this code in the PG and added a `opOffsets` uniform to the `computeFixedEquirectangularCoords` function, which is added to the longitude/latitude calculated lines 135/136. A material plugin is used to set values to this uniform.
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### Author:  [@vlayd16](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/vlayd16)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-video-as-a-mesh-reflection/56582/8 "2025-02-21T14:04:10Z")
Awesome, worked for me!