Making your own environment maps

I notice that all of the environment maps appear as spheres.

Has anyone made their own? If so, how did you do it?

This is not important, I’m just curious.

Thanks,

Dan

I tried it with a christmas ornament. Worked OK but there are a lot available on the net. You could probably create a sphere in Rhino and assign a chrome material and an environment and take a screenshot of the sphere and that would then work as a light probe.

@BrianJ - you’ve done this, as panos at least, right? Dan you can convert a 1:2 pano HDR to a chrome ball as well in HDR Shop as I recall, among others I imagine too, maybe even Photoshop, I have to check.

-Pascal

Yeep, HDRShop works, but search on Google for V1, this was free for academic and noncommercial…
Function is under menu Image -> Panorama -> Panoramic Transformations…

You can do panoramic conversions in Rhino!! Here’s one using an HDR I share on Food4Rhino converted to a 1024x1024 light probe jpg.

Ka-ching! I knew you were the man for this.

-Pascal

Wow that’s awesome, I didn’t know we could make our own environment maps through Rhino with our own Panoramic,
great tip!

Thanks to all for the feedback. I’m going to give this a try.

Dan