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Setting up a camera for a cube map

Setting up a camera for a cube map - Maya Tutorial

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Setting up a camera for a cube map

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- [Instructor] A spherical environment map is also known as an equirectangular or a latitude and longitude projection, and it's very easy to set up. However, an equirectangular image has a couple of limitations. One is that it's kind of inefficient. It wastes a lot of available texture memory because it's got a lot of pixels devoted to the top and the bottom poles of the sphere. So, it's really quite inefficient. Also, it's very difficult to edit a spherical environment map. If you bring it into an editing program such as Photoshop you'll find it's almost impossible to manipulate that image because, for example, straight lines are curved and everything is warped and weird, and it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to work with. If you want to conserve texture memory and basically get double the quality at the same resolution, and or you want the ability to edit the image then instead of using a spherical…

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