Rendering equirectangular HDR map from Blender scene

Support Lighting and Rendering
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I’m building a Blender scene with the sole purpose of rendering a skybox for Unreal Engine 4. The skybox needs to be an equirectangular map with HDR. Is there any special type of camera that can be used to achieve this?

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use cycles

place the camera at the center ( 0,0,0 )
use panoramic with the “equal area” setting

then set the render size to a power of 2 ( 2048 x 1024 or 4096 x 2048 and so on)

then render and save the scene output