360 HDRi to Blender Cube/Enviroment Maps Convertor
- June 15, 2016
- 1,015 Downloads
- 10 Likes
- Blender 2.7x
- Render: Cycles
- Creator: rogper
- License: CC-0
Description:
Demo video: https://youtu.be/Dn869EoTvH4
Hey, I have been working a lot with cube maps recently. They are easy to make, but a bit hard to set them up to be converted in the right way. With this file you can do it very fast.
A good cube map resolution is 3072-2048. You can have bigger and smaller images as long you keep it proportional (1536-1024 ; 768-512, etc).
You just need to:
Load an HDRi; Preview it (optional); Bake it; Save it;
HDRi on the example image is from: http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html
Comments:
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rogper
Written June 15, 2016Hey mramshaw, Thanks! Nice suggestion, you're right, as soon I get time I'll do as you suggest.
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muerezombie77
Written June 15, 2016GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTO!!!, ESTA BUENISIMO,TENIA MUCHAS GANAS DE SABER DEL CUBE MAP, AHORA PUEDO APRENDER A USARLO...ESTO ME HACE MUY FELIZ..!! DE NUEVO GRACIAS..!!
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rogper
Written June 16, 2016:) Your welcome! I'm glad it was useful. I use them professionally very frequently, they are time savers :)
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Tozan
Written June 16, 2016What exactly is a cube map, is that just another name for a Sky box for Blender?
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rogper
Written June 16, 2016No, it is not that :) A cube map is a way for you to have reflections on your object in real time (viewport, game engine) without having to use the time consuming computations of raytracers, path tracers, etc (blender internal, Cycles).
Cube maps are accelerated by "modern" GPUs (anything with less then 5 years old should work), so you can have an accurate reflection (the things reflect as expected and from the right directions) in real time, no need to wait at all. All you see in my demo video "isn't rendered" (well, it is being rendered by the GPU), it's in real time :)
Here a perhaps better example: https://youtu.be/xsV9Ln_TLa8
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omgkillme
Written March 25, 2017I've followed the instructions completely and it still wont let me bake the image. Could you help
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Ghanshyamv
Written January 31, 2019Hii osm but i can't download plz give another download link Plz plz plz
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noobay
Written June 25, 2019hi! this looks great. unfortunately, I am not able to install it from the zip on blender 2.79.
Edit: nevermind, I just ran the scene... I'm new to blender and thought this was an addon :S
This is insanely cool, thanks for sharing. Works perfectly as described.
One suggestion, add the instructions as a text file internally.