Where to find good Cubemaps?

Joopson

Hey guys, I've been looking for some good quality cubemaps, but I've hit a dead end.

I downloaded these ones: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1545183 , and managed to find a few others, too, but most of them are Outdoors with pretty even lighting, and not much contrast, which leads to washed-out textures, at least while using Maya 2014's dx11 shader.

Does anyone know of, or have any? Really any at all, but especially indoor cubemaps, or studio-lighting cubemaps.

Thanks.

ZacD

If you have a smart phone, there's a lot of 360 panorama apps, you could try using those to make your own.

Stromberg90

Are you looking for proper hdr maps or something to use in a game engine?

Joopson

Just for use in Maya, with the DX11 viewport shader. So, the same sorts of maps you'd use in game, but with an entirely horizontal layout, much like this, instead of the cross layout often seen.:



Some people, I've noticed, upload each individual square separately, which is fine, too.

So, no use having real HDR data in the map. At least not for my use.


ZacD, I hadn't thought of that. I wouldn't know where to start, but I'll look into it. It could prove useful if I could work it out. Thanks for the idea!

Stromberg90

I do have a few studio panoramas that I made for toolbag1, but I cant find a good way to convert them to cube-maps for you

chrisradsby

It's the same deal even if they are horisontal? You just make sure you know what direction each of the sides are and then just photoshop them into a line? ^^

You can always try to make your own? It's a very good thing to try to do at some point. Even though in game environments these days the engine does it for you xD Good learning experience either way.

Xoliul

HDRshop can convert between Vertical Cross layout and Cylindrical (which is what you are after). You might have some trouble finding the freeversion of HDRshop though, they removed that in favor of the paid one..

Racer445

beach.dds

Frankie

not hdr but flickr or google image equirectangular has lots of results

http://www.flickr.com/groups/equirectangular/pool/

CheeseOnToast

I've got a maya scene with all the cameras set up ready to make cubemap shots here :

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1889770/CubemapScene/cubemap_maker.ma

If you make a big sphere, texture it with the sky of your choosing then render out each camera view, it's easy to turn into a cubemap strip. I'd recommend using ati cubemapgen to do it. It allows you to load each face seperately and can spit out a nice cubemap with seamless mipmaps.

cptSwing

Kodde has an assload of 'em

http://www.kostas.se/?p=321