I was having an issue earlier, where I wanted to create a simulated reflection on the floor beneath a vector object made up of many smaller paths, while still maintaining full transparency of my final vector.
This is a very easy thing to accomplish in Photoshop and I found a few posts here about it, but I was having trouble finding anything about how to do it in Illustrator (let me know if this is a duplicate and I'll delete). I figured I would share how I accomplished this task and open it up to any better methods you might have.
So, the question is: How do I take this vector object below and add a reflection beneath it, that fades to transparent?