zbryanz
July 19, 2013, 5:33pm
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So I was watching some videos and saw some people that had these types of maps and wanted to know what they were. They are the types of maps that show reflections of a picture like this below.
Sorry for this being such a dumb newbie question I am trying to get into texturing Thanks
looks liike a sky map or angle map or HDRI map !
salut
zbryanz
July 19, 2013, 7:01pm
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No I don;t think that;s it you use it for reflections off of stuff like car windows etc. (sorry don’t really know how to explain it)
Environment maps
In computer graphics, environment mapping, or reflection mapping, is an efficient image-based lighting technique for approximating the appearance of a reflective surface by means of a precomputed texture image. The texture is used to store the image of the distant environment surrounding the rendered object. Several ways of storing the surrounding environment are employed. The first technique was sphere mapping, in which a single texture contains the image of the surroundings as reflected on a mi...
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Textures#Environment_Texture http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Mapping/Environment
zbryanz
July 19, 2013, 8:11pm
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YES that’s it thanks Richard sorry for the trouble
