environmental texture- mirror ball

wingchu · February 17, 2015, 1:20am

I need help on this mirror ball environmental texture deal.
I have this awesome texture that i d/led a while ago but never gotten a chance to use it.

when i try to use it in blender as an environmental texture, the preview seems great but on the actual render preview, it just renders a blue screen. I think the texture is too big or something?
I’m not too sure.

Thanks for the help

IkariShinji · February 17, 2015, 1:27am

Make sure you’re not in orthographic view.

RickyBlender · February 17, 2015, 5:14am

shoe nodes set up

and you must put your camera in the back center (back to front) or it wont work

I did a bug report on that a few months back!

happy bl

wingchu · February 17, 2015, 9:46am

hi ricky,

what do you mean about shoe nodes?
i’m not terrible adept at using blender (still trying to learn this beast of a program) and still haven’t explored everything.
Thanks!

RickyBlender · February 17, 2015, 10:24am

what is the nodes set up you used for this
there might be a mistake may be!

or if you can upload sample file so we can test it !

happy bl

dunawayc · February 17, 2015, 1:03pm

I believe that he meant show nodes and not shoe nodes.

In other words, show your node setup for you environment material.

wingchu · February 17, 2015, 10:41pm

HAHHAHA that makes perfect sense. anyways, yea, the reason it didn’t work was it was in ortho mode… i should’ve followed the second poster’s suggestion instead of jumping the gun.

THANKS guys