sphere mapped sky to sky box conversion
Re: sphere mapped sky to sky box conversion
So, after I run the bat file, where does it save the sky images to? I run the bat file and I see it open and close the POV program numeroous times but I have no idea where it's saving the pictures or if it even is. Searching for sky-n on my computer only comes up with skyboxes for tracks I've downloaded...
Re: sphere mapped sky to sky box conversion
Oh, it's not able to create them because it says it can't read the width and height from the PPM image.
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Okay, apparently Photoshop wasn't saving the PPM file correctly. Got it squared away now.
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Re: sphere mapped sky to sky box conversion
Is there any possible way to figure out how to find the sun vector for your lighting file?
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Nvm that tutorial was totally useless with the method I used, anyone have any suggestions on how to get the sun vector with the google maps method?
http://forum.mxsimulator.com/viewtopic.php?t=33005
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Yeah I give up on this custom skybox, having too many issues lol.
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Re: sphere mapped sky to sky box conversion
I am able to render the images manually one at a time, but when I try to run the batch file, I get "Possible parse error: cannot find skybox.pov" Any ideas on how to fix this?jlv wrote:- Run "makeskybox.bat". You might have to edit the first line depending on where you have POV-Ray installed.
I am using POV-Ray 3.7 on Windows 10 via Parallels on my iMac. I have edited the makeskybox.bat to point to the correct POV-Ray directory, and the makeskybox.bat, skybox.pov, and spheremap are all in the same folder.
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Your current directory has to be the folder where you extracted the zip. So for Windows, first "cd c:\wherever\you\unzipped\skybox" then "makeskybox.bat".ColtonD719 wrote:I am able to render the images manually one at a time, but when I try to run the batch file, I get "Possible parse error: cannot find skybox.pov" Any ideas on how to fix this?jlv wrote:- Run "makeskybox.bat". You might have to edit the first line depending on where you have POV-Ray installed.
I am using POV-Ray 3.7 on Windows 10 via Parallels on my iMac. I have edited the makeskybox.bat to point to the correct POV-Ray directory, and the makeskybox.bat, skybox.pov, and spheremap are all in the same folder.
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If you're on a Mac the shell script (makeskybox.sh) will probably work. Just edit the "povray=/opt/povray/bin/povray" line to point to where you have POV-Ray installed, then "cd /wherever/you/unzipped/skybox" then "./makeskybox.sh".
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