I'd like to use Blender cycles to generate an image which can be used as a world background image. An example is this kind of image is from hrdmaps.com
How can a blender scene be rendered like this?
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Sign up to join this communityI'd like to use Blender cycles to generate an image which can be used as a world background image. An example is this kind of image is from hrdmaps.com
How can a blender scene be rendered like this?
This is natively supported in Cycles.
Set your output resolution at a 2x1 ratio (e.g. 2048x1024).
Select the camera.
In the properties window, camera tab, select "Panoramic."
For "Type" select Equirectangular.
Here's what it looks like for me: