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Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:34 am
by FoXar
Title says it all! More and more clients are asking for "those images where you can turnaround in", I think this should be a much needed option that should be implemented soon! Please? :mrgreen:

I'm aware there are turnarounds, but many times scarified by quality, and I don't want to render 6 images to their same SPP, this would be a great timesaver and client winner + satisfier! :!:

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:51 am
by cotty
+1 :D

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:26 am
by CTZn
+2.5

since it's an old request I've also been contributing to !

Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:31 pm
by zeitmeister
Definately a strong request for me also!!!

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:48 pm
by FoXar
Great that many community members want it! Can we now add it somewhere on the top of the priority list...? :mrgreen:

Had 3 clients asking for this in the past 2 weeks, would be great to tell them 'okay no problem' :D

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:42 pm
by Zom-B
FoXar wrote:Had 3 clients asking for this in the past 2 weeks, would be great to tell them 'okay no problem' :D
Since its a oooooold request, I wouldn't be that optimistic to see it that soon -.-'
But since "orthographic camera" made it into Indigo, a spherical one may be in reach :)

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:50 pm
by CTZn
Beside "those images where you can turnaround in", the possibility to bake a custom 3d environment in HDRI and use it later on for any interior scene sealed by portals sounds like a must to me. A way to work the "you can't render beyond portals" issue around.

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:18 pm
by FoXar
Zom-B, yes I saw a thread from 2010 requesting this, there were some hints it might be included in 2.4 or 2.6, I don't remember too well. I'm not expecting this to have it immediately, but I hope sometime soon (next major release, hint hint?)

CTZn, haven't thought about that but sounds great too! This would be a great workaround indeed!

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:27 am
by OnoSendai
This shouldn't be too hard, I'll look into it soon.

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:54 am
by FoXar
OnoSendai wrote:This shouldn't be too hard, I'll look into it soon.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED :mrgreen:

You made my day! Thanks :D

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:32 am
by OnoSendai
WIP

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:37 am
by Zom-B
Sometimes it isn't fun to see that you integrate features we are requested years ago in few hours -.-'
But in the end the result is that counts :)

Foxar, I think you can give your clients a call now :P

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:40 am
by OnoSendai
Zom-B wrote:Sometimes it isn't fun to see that you integrate features we are requested years ago in few hours -.-'
But in the end the result is that counts :)

Foxar, I think you can give your clients a call now :P
Haha sorry about that :)
To be fair it's not done yet. Need to make it work with bidir, then do GUI integration work, XML loading etc.., all of which takes quite a while :)

Edit:
Also now that we have ortho cam support, adding new camera types is a lot easier.

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:01 am
by FoXar
@ OnoSendai, oooooh boy, this is just getting better and better! :mrgreen:

@ Zom-B, at least we succeeded requesting! Unfortunately there won't be time left to give this to my client, deadline is by the end of this weekend, auwch!

Re: Panorama / Spherical renders

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:24 am
by CTZn
soon = the next couple hours. Oh okay. Stable's out, time for some fun anyways :twisted:

XML loading would do fine for starters *holding keystrokes back*