Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

[Micha_cg]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

... it's at the texture slot only. I don't know why it work so good, it's perfect visible at the viewport.

[bdcali_cg]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

Ah, texture slot only.
However I still can't see the image on the inside of the sphere... only the outside. I have double sided checked... what am I missing? I'm sure its something obvious / simple.

[bliker_cg]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

Ah, texture slot only.
However I still can't see the image on the inside of the sphere... only the outside. I have double sided checked... what am I missing? I'm sure its something obvious / simple.

...maybe reversing sphere normal direction.

[Micha_cg]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

... best download the scene file and use it for experiments. The normals are not inverted here.

[bdcali_cg]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

...maybe reversing sphere normal direction.

I don't think you can reverse the normals on a sphere... at least I'm not having any luck doing it. Hm... I've created a sphere using the "_Shpere" command, and also using a half circle revolved around it's axis... Niether are allowing me to reverse the normals.

A flat plane shows a double sided mat. but the sphere isn't working.

... best download the scene file and use it for experiments. The normals are not inverted here.

I'm stuck with Rhino v3. so your example scene is inaccessible till I upgrade.

Speaking of... maybe this is an RCM issue that is fixed with the beta?

[dalomar_cg]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

You also may try splitting the sphere, grouping it, flipping the normals, and mapping it that way.

[Micha_cg]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

Also create a mesh from the sphere (this is good for large env spheres allways) helps and than you can flip the normals of the closed object.

[sheva_29]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

Hi Micha I know this is a very old topic. Im very new in this and I wanted to give it a try to the spherical environment experiment so i downloaded your file an put pictures from my own and it really worked . I also checked your 'Wish" and I saw that you change the script of your layers, I want to know if one of the reason of why the experiment worked it was because of the script change you did.

P.D: I know this is a very old topic i hope you reply me thank you very much!

[Micha_cg]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

Hi,

the script change the layer visibilty only. If I remember me right, it turn off the sphere with the jpg texture, so that the Vray GI environment can be active during the rendering. The sphere is for preview at the viewport only, not for rendering.
Is this the answer?

[sheva_29]

Re: Rendered viewport with visible spherical environment experiment

Yes it is!!! awsome, thank you very much!