Quicktime VR

[Daniele_ve]

Hello,
I'd like to know why using the 'panorama esporter' utility of 3dsmax I can't use distributed render... If I use it I get only black pictures...

P.S. I usually use DR with no problem, and the same scene without DR, rendered on the local pc, works well (just a little bit too long to render...).

Thanks
Daniele

[percydaman]

use the vray camera set to spherical 360 to render out your spherical panorama. then load it into your max environment and THEN use the max VR quicktime utility.

[Daniele_ve]

I can't find any spherical camera that can render an image that cover all the 6 views (top, bottom, left, right,...)
I can't understand why the 1st time I could use DR, and then I couldn't anymore.

P.S. How can I create a a QtimeVr from a camera box image?

[DaForce]

In the render panel , scroll down to the camera roll out. Change the camera type to Spherical, then tick Override FOV and change it to 360.

Now when you render you will get a full spherical image (like you get some HDRI's)

[Daniele_ve]

Thank-you DaForce, it work!
But it seem to me that the qtvr generated with a spherical image is not so good as it was generated with a box image... try to see... it has much less distortion and you can look at the very top and the very bottom of the scene.

[percydaman]

that may be true, bit Ive gotten seams at corners and edges when using the box method.

[DaForce]

yeah, basically with the spherical one you have only one seem to join. With box you have alot more.

Also dont forget to render out the spherical map at a 2:1 resolution.
By that i mean twice as wide as it is high. so 512 high by 1024 wide.
If you havnt done that then that might be adding to your distortion.