Dutcheeseblend
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Hi all,
Some of you might have encountered my last post in my Fokker D.21 thread. Anyway, I'm working on Environment Maps. Yesterday I made one of a global scenery, so ground and air actually.
I needed to apply some Edge Fixup to achieve a more or less seamless cube. Remember, I made the screenshots in FSX myself.
But, of course the glass of the gauges don't reflect the green meadows since there aren't meadows in the cockpit. So, I neede to make an environment map of the cockpit.
Blender has lots of possibilities so I decided to make that map by Blender.
This is the result. Keep in mind that I first got a result with the typically grey background behind the windows. In Gimp, I put my envmap screenshots there and put everything together with Ati. Just observe, the Blender created map is 99,999% seamless!
Let's give you a hand on how to do this. (Ok, I learned this also from the web)
First, create a cube at the viewpoint you want (I guess this should be the pilot's viewpoint as specified in the aircraft.cfg).
Now, create a material and a texture for the cube and give the texture the following settings:
So you should change the Type to Environment Map, select the Static Environment Map, let the mapping be Cube and select your cube as the Viewpoint object.
Got that? Start rendering by pressing F12 now.
Drink a cup of coffee...
Ok, once the rendering process is finished, hit the downarrow next to the knobs of 'Static' 'Animated' and 'Image File' and select 'Save Environment Map'. Now you have created the map, it should look as follows:
Remember that this is not a suitable FSX environment map. You need to create one by using the Ati CubeMapGen (find it on the net:http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/archive/legacy-cpu-gpu-tools/cubemapgen/ )
There, you should add each tile of the abovepictured image. The tiles are as follows:
-X -Z +X
-Y +Y +Z
You could edit this file in a painting program to separate every tile.
Add them using the knob 'Load CubeMap Face', after selecting the right Cube Face in the dropdown above that knob.
Basically, that's it! Save your file using Save CubeMap (.dds).
Hope you can use it!
Some of you might have encountered my last post in my Fokker D.21 thread. Anyway, I'm working on Environment Maps. Yesterday I made one of a global scenery, so ground and air actually.
I needed to apply some Edge Fixup to achieve a more or less seamless cube. Remember, I made the screenshots in FSX myself.
But, of course the glass of the gauges don't reflect the green meadows since there aren't meadows in the cockpit. So, I neede to make an environment map of the cockpit.
Blender has lots of possibilities so I decided to make that map by Blender.
This is the result. Keep in mind that I first got a result with the typically grey background behind the windows. In Gimp, I put my envmap screenshots there and put everything together with Ati. Just observe, the Blender created map is 99,999% seamless!
Let's give you a hand on how to do this. (Ok, I learned this also from the web)
First, create a cube at the viewpoint you want (I guess this should be the pilot's viewpoint as specified in the aircraft.cfg).
Now, create a material and a texture for the cube and give the texture the following settings:
So you should change the Type to Environment Map, select the Static Environment Map, let the mapping be Cube and select your cube as the Viewpoint object.
Got that? Start rendering by pressing F12 now.
Drink a cup of coffee...
Ok, once the rendering process is finished, hit the downarrow next to the knobs of 'Static' 'Animated' and 'Image File' and select 'Save Environment Map'. Now you have created the map, it should look as follows:
Remember that this is not a suitable FSX environment map. You need to create one by using the Ati CubeMapGen (find it on the net:http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/archive/legacy-cpu-gpu-tools/cubemapgen/ )
There, you should add each tile of the abovepictured image. The tiles are as follows:
-X -Z +X
-Y +Y +Z
You could edit this file in a painting program to separate every tile.
Add them using the knob 'Load CubeMap Face', after selecting the right Cube Face in the dropdown above that knob.
Basically, that's it! Save your file using Save CubeMap (.dds).
Hope you can use it!
