[Bf-gamedev] Directional lightmaps and light probes

[Marc Dion]

David:

The Glossy Shader applied to a sphere captures the surrounding environment
easily enough when baked.   Not sure what the best approach is for handling
the UV Coordinates.
Here's the results for the simple setup I tried.
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/85179

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Here are some links for rendering Skyboxes using Blender.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?345252-Rendering-baking-environmental-map-%28cubemap-skybox%29-in-Blender-2-7x-how

http://25x8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/rendering-skybox-for-unity-using-blender.html

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?241187-Rendering-a-cubemap-skybox

If I remember correctly, Photoshop Elements has a tool for converting
between Equirectangular and Spherical coordinates.

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There is also a link here for setting up Mercator Projection UV's on
Blender Stack Exchange

http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/3315/how-to-get-perfect-uv-sphere-mercator-projection
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Encoding additional information in normal maps sounds nicely obscure :) ,
anyways,  the following thread shows how to setup up nodes for baking
Tangent maps with bump mapping and maybe this can be used as a starting
point for what you want to do since you should be able to bias the normals
towards any direction you choose by using the Mapping node to transform
vectors.   Shift+a -> Vector -> Mapping

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?348799-Baking-Cycles-Procedural-Normals-to-Texture

It looks like the map is in linear space, maybe it would look right for
games after being Gamma corrected.
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