Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
As you can see in the preceeding screenshot, the objects in the center of the scene
reflect the environment they are in. This is something often called a skybox. To get
ready, the first thing we need to do is get a cubemap. If you search on the Internet,
you can find some ready-to-use cubemaps, but it is also very easy to create one
yourself. For this, go to
http://gonchar.me/panorama/
. On this page, you can upload
a panoramic picture and it will be converted to a set of pictures you can use as a
cubemap. For this, perform the following steps:
1. First, get a 360 degrees panoramic picture. Once you have one, upload it to
the
http://gonchar.me/panorama/
website by clicking on the large
OPEN
but-
ton:
2. Once uploaded, the tool will convert the panorama picture to a cubemap as
shown in the following screenshot:
