Building a Cube World: Part 1

Hi Carl.It is very Good.Thanks For It.

can you mention the name of the font you used on the title banner of your tutorial. I've been looking for it for a while and I didn't find it yet.thanks a lot.

I tried Firefox instead of IE and it plays. Great tutorial!

I can't get the video to play. Any suggestions?

Is it the fact that as the images are being scaled, they are getting proportionately further from the camera, thus preventing any distortion?

Okay, that's my last guess. I will wait for someone smarter than I to answer.

but if the cube faces are being scaled, that would mean the images are being scaled, too...and the images were brought in to a same-size comp, meaning they're being scaled above 100%. I realize this can't be, since a %1000 scale would destroy the image quality, but I'm can't seem to wrap my head around how its working.

when you scale the "world scaler" null to 1000%, what exactly is that doing? the world does appear to get larger, but obviously scaling the images themselves would cause distortion.

Great tut, thanks!

Hi, good tutorial. Especially being that its free. I never go into using pano pictures in AE but I always wanted to. I was wondering though. Could you use Ps CS2 or higher to do the cutting up of the pictures. Thanks for you help.

Jerry Nieves

I'd like to throw in that cycore has a plugin called CC environment, when applied to a layer it works with a 3d camera as a 2d layer using an equirectangle map

just another plugin that deserves it's due. Works well.

still the creating a cube and using it as an environment map, well i was very surprised that worked so well, more cow 4 you.

Jerry -

Thanks for the comments. It is possible to do the equirectangular to cubic conversion in photoshop, but as far as I know you can't do it using the built in tools alone. Instead, you need to buy the $30 LensFix CI / Panotools plug-ins from Kekus Digital -There are probably other approaches out there, but I'm not aware of them at this time.

If you choose to pursue the Buy LensFix CI / Panotools plug-in route, here's a link to a very useful tutorial on the subject:

http://www.all-in-one.ee/%7edersch/panorectilinear/panorectilinear.html

If you are feeding the plug-in a full 360 equirectangular image you'll have to run the plug-in six times with the following settings to get your cube faces.

Image:
HFov: 90
Width: 2000
Height:2000
Format: Rectilinear

Panorama:
HFov: 360
Width: 0
Height: 0
Format: PSphere

Position:
Yaw: 0 Front, Top, Bottom; -90 Left, +90 Right, 180 Back
Pitch: 0 Front, Back, Left, Right; +90 Top; -90 Bottom
Roll: 0

Two final thoughts: You may be able to find a script out there that does all the data entry for you, or you could record an action within photoshop to do the same thing. Personally, I think cubic converter is a slicker method for an 8 bit workflow, but you may have to get the plug-in if you find yourself in a 32 bit pipeline.

Hope that helps!

I meant to say, got into, in the first sentence. Thanks again.

Jerry Nieves

Great tutorial!

Now I want to stitch my own equirectangular shot. Anyone know of any resources to stitch the photos? Or a how-to, tutorial, or anything? Google yields mostly images that are equirectangular, or how to use them in a similar way, but I haven't found anything about stitching your own.

Thanks!

I think more information is required for the process of creating the 360 degrees panorama.
Can this be useful?
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-75e8a.html

This could not have come at a better time. Very simple and fast. I have this exact need right now. Thanks! BTW - I grew up in Saint Cloud, MN. Minneapolis College of Art & Design grad. Small world!

look forward to part 2