Is reflector material usable on a project which must be fluid?

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I would like to make a scene which will be close to this : https://r3f-3d-text-effect.vercel.app/ As it is for a personal website, it must be fluid.
The reflector material is very power consuming. Is that a good idea to use it actually ? My old gpu GTX 745 is having an hard time rendering it. So do you think you can honestly think that all smarthphone or PC should render this nowadays or is it just a no-go ?

Thank you

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There are parameters that you can tweak for the reflector to make it more performant. Especially scaling down its reflection target.

(
clipBias: 0.003,
  	textureWidth: window.innerWidth * window.devicePixelRatio, //<---defaults are large
  	textureHeight: window.innerHeight * window.devicePixelRatio, //for speed perhaps use window.innerHeight * .5 or similar
  	color: 0xc1cbcb
)

To render reflection, the reflector re-renders the entire scene, so.. for it to work smoothly, you non-reflected scene has to execute in half of its frame budget, or a time proportional to the textureDimensions and screen dimensions.

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