Topics created by smileychirk

Hehe, that would have been a sight to see, Susan. 😄
You can't map an ordinary landscape/skyline to a dome...even if it's a full 360° panoramic image. You can get part of the way up...just like a cyclindrical cyclorama, but one that bends inwards at the top; but the circle above your head will just never work. You need a full hemispherical image like these.

A disproportionate amount of image has to be employed to map that small area directly above you (like the full top half of the rectangular versions) while the bottom edge has to run the entire circumference of the horizon.

Thanks for that.

I noticed some of the textures that do display on my PC do have embedded Exif properties. Curiouser and curiouser.

Incidentally,

I have noticed writing the file from PhotoShop using "File> save for web" stripes out most of the embedded data including exif data.

The file size has dopped from 3.7 meg to 400 k which is worth having.

Smiley