spherical sky to reflect in window glass??

[pshupe68]

I'm having trouble with getting a spherical image to reflect in my window glass. I have no problem making a material that has a sherical environment map but when I put a spherical bitmap in the Environment override under the renderer it seems to tile like crazy? HOw do you get it to recognize as a spherical environment under that or Vray reflect/refract slots? I have even tried putting it in the Vray material I am using for my glass under the diffuse slot and I can set it up as spherical environment but the map doesn't show up at all when rendered.

The image below shows the bitmap in the Environment override under the renderer. I like this place I just don't want the tiling. Please advise. Thanks for any advice.

Regards PEter.

[Da_elf]

make sure to copy it over to your material editor slots as instanced and double check that its spherical envinronment

[Syclone1]

yea it almost looks like the background map is set to planar from world xyz.

-dave

[tom182]

This seems to happen to me from time to time, I correct this with Da_Elf's solution, It seems to be a preset value in the active slot that causes this.

Tom

[pshupe68]

Yeah - that was it. I tried to drag one of my mapped materials from the material editor before but it didn't work, probably because it was a bitmap in the diffuse slot instead of just a bitmapped image.

I think I'll have to up the output or modify the bitmap to show some clouds in my windows.

Thanks for the help! It's always something.

Regards Peter.