bagginsbill opened this issue on Jul 29, 2008 · 156 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 15 August 2008 at 8:31 PM
If you're going to directly see the sphere, then yes biggest is best, especially if you're not using a wide-angle camera.
For reflections only, high resolution doesn't matter much.
For environmental lighting, high resolution doesn't matter at all.
The only reason not to use the biggest is to save memory and perhaps compute time. I've seen Poser go nuts taking all day rendering reflections of a 10K by 5K e-sphere image, while in the same scene just zipping through reflections of a 6K by 3K e-sphere image.
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