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1. Tutorial: Polar Projection for Skies

   

   Topic by Coexistence · Oct 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Also on my website. First I'll describe the sky technique I was taught in college for the sake of comparison, then I'll go into my own technique. Old and Busted The following technique is the one I was taught in college. We take a spherical mesh, invert the normals, and planar map each hemisphere from the top and bottom.…

2. Re: Tutorial: Polar Projection for Skies

   

   Reply by o2car · Oct 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   That texture is pretty cool! Is it painted or generated?

3. Re: Tutorial: Polar Projection for Skies

   

   Reply by JoscelinFrost · Oct 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Very cool! I'll fiddle with this myself in a little bit. Kind of reminds me of a cool fake I came up with using cubemaps to create decals for "holes" in walls and such to create the impression of seeing through to the skybox. I reckon it would probably look a lot better coupled with this approach. Keep up the good work!

4. Re: Tutorial: Polar Projection for Skies

   

   Reply by arrangemonk · Oct 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   congratulations, you just invented latlong environment mapping ..... again