Creating Skyboxes in Maya

News & General Discussion
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Ok, so i have a cool sky made… how on earth do i go about getting the necessary images? Does anyone have any tips?

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In general, you set the field of view of the rendering camera to 90º, then render square images in the six directions of a cube’s faces.

Is that what you’re looking for?
-Jon

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Thanks, I figured it out.:
Angle of View: 90
Focal Length: Default (12.7)
Camera Scale: 1
Camera Apeture: 1 , 1
Film Aspect Ratio: 1

Then just rotate the camera in 90 degree increments:
+z: 0 , 0 , 0
+x: 0 , -90 , 0
+y: 90 , 0 , 0
-z: 0 , 180 , 0
-x: 0 , 90 , 0

Here’s the +z image:

And a link to the Tutorial I got the scene from :wink:

Maya Rendering Techniques - Exploring Advanced Shading Networks

4210--157--$skyresult_686.jpg

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