Godot 4 project that can generate panorama images to be used as sky panorama textures.
The project comes with 5 sample scenes to play with. You can, of course, make your own.
Setup your new custom scene in res://my_scenes directory.
This scene can be anything, the only caveat is that you reserve space at the center of the world for the cameras.
Give your root node a unique name, as this will be the default filename (you can change it later).
Run the project to preview and render your panoramas.
Your scene, if you placed it under my_scenes directory, will show up here.
Select a scene to load it, this will preview the panorama rendering.
You can customize rendering options in the settings menu.
To render a panorama, set you desired settings and click Render.
Optionally, you can check on Skybox and 6 separate images that represent a skybox render will also be created alongside the panorama render.
The Render buttons will be enabled once a scene is loaded.
- File name - Default set from root scene node name, customize text for filename export
- Capture - Set resolution for each of the cube cameras (capture resolution)
- Output - Set resolution of output panorama file (output resolution)
- Filter - Choose texture filtering, will render smooth or pixelated image
- Antialias - Select if 3D meshes should be antialiased (MSAA 8x)
- Skybox - Option to generate 6 separate skybox images as well
Once you have clicked Render, after a short pause while the image is rendered, a Panorama preview popup window will display.
Navigate the panorama preview using the keyboard arrow buttons. Set Texture Filter options for the preview from smooth to pixelated, depending on how you like to view the image.
You can select and preview rendered panorama images at any time from the Renders menu.
Rendered panoramas are saved inside of res://panoramas/.
If you have selected the Skybox checkbox, rendered images will be saved inside the res://panoramas/<scene_name>/.
These images are compatible with "Quake" 1 and 2 in-game skybox rendering. Might also work in "Half-Life 1", but has not been tested. Quake and Half-Life are copyright their respective owners, and are not related to this project in any way.
To view how this process works in action check out this video: https://youtu.be/Xmk56k_vyZk
And this should conclude the general introduction to the features available.
I have loose "short term" plans to turn this stand-alone project into a Godot Plugin, and distribute it on the Godot Asset Library.
Another "loose" plan, is to turn this project into a stand-alone executable with some added procedural panorama generation features. No promises.
Project is released under the MIT license: "link to license"
The project makes use of the "Camera 360" Godot project, which was originally forked from: https://github.com/BastiaanOlij/godot_camera_360 created by Bastiaan Olij.
This project includes some images which are freely available under very permissive license CC0 from Poly Haven.
This project also makes use of the Stylized Sky Godot project assets: https://github.com/gdquest-demos/godot-4-stylized-sky