Cath I understand the light probe and I agree with that diagram. I'm not talking about light probes yet. Why do you keep talking about them.

I'm talking about how to use a 360 panoramic image on a Hi-res sphere so that it works as a visible environment around your scene.

Please take the pond image and mark it with North West South East as you have done. Attach this modified image to a Poser sphere. Render from inside with low focal length so we can see the relationship of South to West, West to North, North to East and East to South.

Also, the words must be legible so we can see that they are not backward.

Look at my images. North->Red is Right->East, and so on. How are those wrong? They are not wrong. But if you render North->West->South->East it will be wrong. If you use North->West->South->East, the words are backward or they are the wrong words. Show me your environment sphere rendered from the inside. You still have not done that. We'll get to the light corresponding light probes afterward.

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