Sky billboard
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Does anyone have any experieince with using a large vertical plane in the background as a billboard for a sky jpeg? I tried watermark, but it didn't work well for me. I tried a curved plane with the arc tool, but the sky showed up painted on the sections of the curve. Does anyone have experience with this?
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Im not particularly experienced with this, but i'll try and help.
From the sounds of it SU just wasnt mapping the image on to your curved face correctly, if you psot your attempt we'll eb able to tell you exactly what to do to sort out your problem.
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A watermark should really work fine - I have a watermark image that wa posted in the old @Lat forum by (as far as I remember) Alan Fraser*. It is actually only the clouds visible and the ret transparent so even your sky colour settings can nicely be seen. Then I made a ustom style ith it and it worked perfectly.
You can download it from here . Save it in your Styles folder.
*No, it was Ross Macintosh - see below .
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Maybe somehow I'm not using the watermark correctly. I can import a sky jpeg, but I can't position the image where I want it (you have to click to move the image to various predetermined locations). Also, if I recall, i couldn't size it as big as I wanted to.
A jpeg like this should reflect in windows in a rendering program, shouldn't it?
Thanks!
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When applying a watermark background, you can stretch it to the screen.Make sure that ground is also turned on otherwise the sky will see through your ground plane.
Watermark background do not export to rendering apps but generally you can apply a hdri as a background in most of them.
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Sorry Ross - I remembered wrong then. Edited my post above
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Actually that transparent png sky Gaieus posted above was created by me.
Steve - you are right that watermarks have fairly limited options regarding positioning. Generally I'd always try a watermark first and see how it looks since that approach is much simplier than 'billboards'. When positioning is important I do use billboards. It can get fussy if you use scenes - you may need multiple billboards, associating individual ones with respective scenes. In those cases I use layers to coordinate the visibility so only the applicable billboard appears with a particular scene. Setting these up is not so much fun -- a task made better with some tequilla!
Regards, Ross
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Any advice on how far in the background from your object to position a sky billboard (I tried to export one into KT set back about 250 feet and it didn't work)? I'm wondering about using sky billboards to reflect the sky in windows.
Thanks for helping!
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Steve,
If you are using KT for rendering,why not use global hdr images as sky within KT itself?
They are much better and nicer than anything you can make in SU and export to a renderer?
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