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So I decided to add some depth with background and no pixels but I needed a panoramic image that fit my scene. I decided to try and create my own.

I created a sphere fliped the normals, and added a star field image to encompass my plane with Displacement to show hills, I then set the camera in the middle, with a wide angle lense and did a 360 rotation image sequence. By consolidating 10 of the images from the sequence I was able to get one image of the 360 degree veiw that I then added to a new sphere with flipped normals around a new plain with minimal displacement. Turned out pretty good but the time, and seems were difficult and 2 are still visible.

is there a program out there, that will take an image and create a panoramic image that encompasses 360 degrees and matches the ends?

here is what I got from manually spending 30 minutes.

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You left me dizzy
Good Scene, I would like help but I can't. Hope that someone can...

I don't know if this is what you are need, but you could try "real" panorama maker software like:

Zoner Panorama Maker
Autostitch
Hugin

or other ones. I use the one from zoner to create panorama images from real photos. It makes with just a few clicks really impressive results and this for freehand made photos. For computer generated accurate images it must work also. The pro here is that it is really intuitive to use and also i can adjust the lens - sometimes importend.

Thank you.

Does zoner save in multiple image formats?

I found one out there that would only save in Jpg. I was looking more for Tiff ot PNG.

While spinning on the landscape, watch out for Dust storms. they come up fast.

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Yes that's right, the most of them save the images as JPG because they handle real photos. Do you need transparency???

Here is one from MS Research.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/ ... s/ivm/ICE/"

I will give that a try to see how well it does.

Bryce will do panoramic landscapes, 5.5 is free, it'll render out 6 pano images for cube maps, or a pano single image for quicktime, you can use ATI's cubemap gen to create DDS format
Carrara does spherical maps, Vue is awesome for pano's
If you look on the TS forum TrueBlue made a camera widget to create the 6 images which works in workpace and modelside, cube cam I think its called

So what is the difference (benefits/disadvatages) of the cube vs the sphere?

I have been using a sphere with pretty simple uv maping to keep minimal disortion on the center ring that will be seen most.

You don't get the distortion
downside to cubemaps is the camera needs to be dead center if the world turns, and you get distortion on the up and down.
A lot of the Flash virtual tours use cube, the actual player stops the up and down issue and most use a simple xml file to load the images
if you use the ATI cube map gen it converts the cube into a DDS you can use on a sphere

Theres a great panoramic game engine called Pipmak (free)
http://pipmak.sourceforge.net/index.php"

if your interested I did a demo game that used TS and Trueblue's cube cam
http://www.nigecstudios.co.uk/games/loo.rar"

BTW you can look at the 6 images, the file hallway.pipmak, use winRAR on it to extract the files, then take hallway.pipmak out of the folder, each area is in its own folder, you could swap the 6 images for your own, just make sure the names are the same, then run the pipmak exe and point it the the main.lua file in the hallway folder