Re: Unwrapping chrome ball pictures...

[Martin Chatterjee <martin.c(at)spans.de>]

I'm not too sure if this is precise enough, but there used to be a Lollipop Texture Projection Method.

(I think it was underProperty  --> Texture Projection --> Create New Texture Projection --> Lollipop)

This is from memory and I'm not in front of XSI right now, so no guarantees...  ;-))

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Chatterjee

Lead TD (Creatures | RnD | Pipeline)

Spans & Partner GmbH
[martin.c(at) spans.de]

Martin Belleau wrote:

That's a very good question... In another software package, for HDR, they
have  "Light Probe" as a projection which automatically unwraps the image.

Is it possible to do this with an existing Node?



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Subject: RE: Unwrapping chrome ball pictures...

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Stuart Hall wrote:

  

If taking it from a shiny ball, is there a way to set up a probe
projection so no unwrapping needs to take place?

Has anyone made such a node? It is there in other software.

I wonder if someone clever enough to do so would be kind enough to do
one....

    

http://gl.ict.usc.edu/HDRShop/tutorial/tutorial5.html

Then HDRShop can convert this into a spherical map if you need one.

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