A background environment for the free
Poser WorldBall and
DAZ Studio WorldBall for your deep-space renders. Fourteen different galaxy/nebula images distributed rather unrealistically across an Earth-based starfield.
N.B. "Limited Use With Credits" - use the phrase "Original source images courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI", or something similar and you're fine!
A few hints on using this one:
1) You probably only want to have one of the galaxies/nebulae in your render - simply spin the WorldBall (or your camera) round to get the view you want (you'll have to render to see it though!)
2) You'll obvipously want to disable the 'WorldBall Ground' - see the ReadMe if you can't work out how to do that.
3) The 'WorldBall Sun' is switched off by default (intensity set to zero), and the 'WorldBall IBL' just gives a very dim grayish-purple global illumination. So you'll probably want to add some lights of your own (or adjust the 'WorldBall Sun' settings) to suit the render.
This 360deg azimuth / +-90deg elevation environment set consists of:
- A latitude/longitude mapped background image (4096x2048 JPG) - shown in promo, top
- An angular mapped light probe image (1024x1024 JPG) - shown in promo, bottom left
- A latitude/longitude mapped reflection image (1024x512 JPG) - not shown
(bottom right is a DAZ Studio 4 render using just this WorldBall environment for lighting and background, and two Klingon D7 Battle Cruisers -
Tex_Turbo's OBJ model, also free from ShareCG here http://www.sharecg.com/v/40476/browse/5/3D-Model/Klingon-D7-Battle-Crusier)
Intended primarily for use with the Simple Poser/DAZ Studio WorldBalls. See the Readme for the datablock to add to the WorldBallData.txt file.
Also suitable for use with anything else that uses latitude/longitude or angular mapped environment images.
(Source images are courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech for the background starfield, and courtesy NASA/STScI for the galaxy/nebula images - full details, including URLs and full credits for each source image, are in the readme)
Happy rendering!
Pete Williams (aka 3dcheapskate)
31st July 2013
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