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Yes, cubemaps are used extensively.<br>
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Blender should support both output formats. Every engine I've worked
in stores cubemaps in one file but skyboxes (same thing as a cubemap
as far as Blender output is concerned) in six. Engine texture
compilers might also consume separate files for each cubemap face
even if the result is stored in one combined file.<br>
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An aside: the spreadsheet request asks for "output that doesn't have
to be additionally messed with for a chosen game engine", and one
aspect of that is determining the location of each face in a
combined output image. It's already possible to do that, there's
just no GUI for it...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/09/2013 5:08, Dalai Felinto
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,
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<div>Is Cubemap rendering a relevant feature for games nowadays?<br>
If so which formats are used for that?</div>
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<div>1) A single TGA/DDS/... file with six images [1]</div>
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2) Individual images (left.tga, right.tga, ...)?<br>
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<div>If the former (1) we could add Cube Map mode to the
panorama camera in Cycles and for the Environment Texture node
in the compositor.</div>
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<div>The downside of this is that Cycles itself cannot yet be
used baking. So I find a bit strange to have an envmap
rendered with Cycles while the rest of the game textures will
not.</div>
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<div>If the latter (2) I will leave this for once multiview is
merged in trunk. (note that I'm working in multiview only in
my own free times, so that's not fast)</div>
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<div>For reference see: "<span
style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans,sans-serif">Better
handling of cubemaps rendering; cubemap rendering support
for Cycles; cubemap camera" in the "</span><font
color="#000000" face="arial, sans, sans-serif">Blender
Gamedev Requests/Issues" [1].<br>
</font><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans,sans-serif"><br>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans,sans-serif"><br>
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<div><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans,sans-serif">[1]
- </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/File:Dev-GameEngine-Dome-EnvMap.jpg">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/File:Dev-GameEngine-Dome-EnvMap.jpg</a></div>
<div><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans,sans-serif">[2]
- <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuS_F0ZKX-zTdGxKOEMtRmI2Tno4UUlPZzVfNXB6RHc#gid=0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuS_F0ZKX-zTdGxKOEMtRmI2Tno4UUlPZzVfNXB6RHc#gid=0</a></span></div>
<div><span
style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans,sans-serif"><br>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans, sans-serif">Thanks,<br>
Dalai</font></div>
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target="_blank">blendernetwork.org/dalai-felinto</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.dalaifelinto.com"
target="_blank">www.dalaifelinto.com</a></div>
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