Just came across this.. free, quick & dirty. Only works up to 16bit images - no hdr.
http://www.flamingpear.com/ornament.html
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
Of Joe Laffey
Sent: 01 June 2006 15:12
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
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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