World Texture -- How to use angmaps?

Support Materials and Textures
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Does anyone use angmaps to texture their world backgrounds in BI? Or even spherical maps of any sort. I just don’t see how to get the world to look anything like a large sphere with a spherical texture mapped to it, which is what I have been using … I simply don’t understand how to map an anamorphic image to the world so as to get an undistorted 360 degree background without adding an object.

So … taking this, or similar angmap (here greatly reduced!)


or this, for a spherical mapping


I get this or some similar smears, sometimes horizontal…


What am I missing?? Help!

I am so stupid!
I knew I had gotten it to work before, it was the real sky option that I had left unchecked. Really. Sorry to make a fuss. But I’ll leave this here in case someone else is also that dumb although it seems rather unlikely.

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something looks not right, but part of the problem might be that your camera is facing toward the back, where everything is pinched together. I don’t think you can get a true 360 pan with ang mapping. you need to have a sky dome for that I think.

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I hope I have not used up my Modron answer I was saving that for something really difficult. But it works perfectly now - yes, 360 degrees until you get dizzy and fall down - or even better than perfectly. Now I feel like that last scene in 2011 when the voice says, “All these worlds are yours…” It was the real sky button. As soon as I looked in the world panel I remembered.