Attached Link: Realtime Panoramic to Angular Map conversion

I can't post in the thread where this belongs, as it is locked.

So here's a new thread. I want to show you how it is possible in Poser to use panoramic images as IBL images even though that is the "wrong" format for Poser. It is done with shader nodes in the light's material.

I made a Flash animation. Rendo won't let me show this directly. So I have prepared a page on Google pages. The animation is about 1 Mbyte. Google claims I have no bandwidth limit, but I'm not sure they'll keep that up forever. But at least for some time, I believe the page will display correctly. If there are problems such that you can't see it, let me know.

If you're coming to this thread months or years later, I can't guarantee that the animation will still be there. If that is the case, send me a private message and I'll try to make it available. Several friends have offered to host files for me, but I do not want to impose at the moment. Plus, it is really easy for me to update Google pages directly.

If you're wondering how to do this yourself, I haven't decided yet how to go about making this possible for you, or if I even want to. I'm not clear how I want to package or distribute this. The math is not hard and I'd be happy to describe it for free, but it requires 54 nodes. Speed is not a problem. They run instantly. It is possible to package this as a ready-to-go Poser material file. You'd only have to load your image - nobody but me needs to understand the math or the shader nodes. But, like I said, I'm not feeling too charitable at the moment. So, for now, you can only look and wish.

Enjoy.

---

Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)