This is a procedure I was playing with a while back to create higher resolution backgrounds for the WorldBall.
(The '26FaceWB' is a Poser PZ3 scene file that is key to this procedure)
It is probably of very limited (if any) use to anybody else
(as always, use of the included scripts is at your own risk - they seem to work fine for me!)
You should be able to follow this procedure without any major problem provided:
- you already have Terragen Classic, HDRShop v1, Imagemagick and Poser installed.
- you are familiar with the original WorldBall environment set creation procedure.
- you are familiar with the original helper scripts.
I only came up with this because Terragen Classic Free has a maximum square render size of 960x960.
The idea is basically to do a set of 45 degree FOV renders in Terragen instead of the original 90 degree renders. One render is centred on 0 azimuth/0 elevation, and the rest are in 45 degree increments in azimuth/elevation. This roughly doubles the resolution. Note that some renders will have overlapping areas. 26 renders are required to cover everything.
I then created an OBJ - my '26 face worldball'. Each face is a square, and is positioned/oriented to exactly match one of the 26 Terragen renders. Note that some faces intersect each other. (Each face is actually a flat 3x3 mesh - this was to get around some problem I came across, but can't recall the details of)
You load this object in Poser centred at the origin, place the dolly camera at the origin, and view through the dolly camera. You'll see a seamless 360 degree azimuth +/- 90 degree elevation background (note: it doesn't necessarily look seamless in the preview pane,but when you render it is). I've created a Poser scene file that has everything set up correctly.
You then do six 90 degree cubemap renders in Poser at whatever resolution you choose, and combine/convert those in the same way as in the original procedure.
The zip just contains the following:
- a 4 page PDF covering the procedure
- a Terragen Classic script
- an Imagemagick batch file (MSDOS/Windows format)
- a Poser scene file
- an empty (except for a readme) runtime subfolder structure where the Poser scene file expects to find 26 BMP images created by Terragen Classic.
Pete Williams (aka the 3DCheapskate)
19th August 2015 « Less
Pitch = +90, Yaw = 180, roll = 0 � filename U.png
Pitch = -90, Yaw = 180, roll = 0 � filename D.png