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Panoramic image used in a scene in iClone?

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With the panoramic feature of iClone 6.5 I was wondering...
Is there a sky sphere that has a properly setup UV map that I can use in iClone that allows a 360 panoramic view that can be viewed by a camera in the sphere?
I would love to use a custom background for scenes with large windows inside a room or a panning driving scene, or even a open cockpit biplane scene.



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any sky would work.
but there are a few props setup for this as well.
in props/3d space----
360 sky
dome
and tower





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Thanks!


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Here's one you can test with.
https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/b1bd8a09-3abe-4b76-a285-3b0.jpeg

Larger version. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3nsNVGroEz6Z3pMUkt2bDNSRnc
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The 360-degree sky prop will work.


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The only problem I encountered was the texture is correctly displayed only on the outer side of the globe so if you have a scene with a store with writing on it for example then all the letters are inverted. So I had to use Blender to make a sphere and flip its UV map and made one that displayed correctly from the inside. 

I included a file of a sphere prop that displays the UV maps correctly. The texture is © and not mine.
Note: I didn't set the globe texture setting Self Illumination, so you'll need to slide it to 100 to remove its shadow.


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There are also little buttons in iClone to flip and rotate the textures as needed. They hide in the UV and tiling section.
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rampa (7/16/2016)
There are also little buttons in iClone to flip and rotate the textures as needed. They hide in the UV and tiling section.

Oh! I see now, "Mirror H" corrects that.
Got it!
Thanks!


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