How to create your own panoramas simply

    Following our post on April 21st , some of 3DXPlorer users wrote to us to ask how to create their own quality images , to be used with the « open sky » scene.   You can find several methods and even tools to automatically generate spherical or hemispherical images. Some of them are quite [...]

Using “render-to-texture” & “texture baking” techniques

  In order to enhance the realism of a scene, very often, we just need to improve lighting conditions and add shadows and other lighting effects. Obviously, in this fiend, real time engines are not supposed to go as far as most off-line rendering calculations. But sometimes, we may be able to use a pre-rendered scene [...]