Best solve for using (any ff-sky-filters renders) in 3D-programs?

Helo guys, what is the best solve for using sky-filters e.g.

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4213.html

and e.g.

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7761.html

the filters are make very nyce skys, but If I use this as an sky-object - hemisphere, so I have ugly "geometric distortions" but If I use the sky-filter based picture as planar, so I have multiple repetitions / multiple tiles (with the same object) ...

Ok, or I descriped it simply ... whats the best way, to use your/the great sky-clouds-renderings from filter forge (or from others/photos/) in 3D scenes?

Many thanks for your answers!

In other news, if you already have a 6 panel cubemap you can use my horizon filter to give it a nice color tint: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7026.html

/shameless plug.


You could take a stab at filter editing and implement a sort of "multi-tile" that Totte uses often in his filters. This would let you use them in a planar sense and still have 4 different images. (Not sure what you could do about the very top though. That's ignoring the fact that there might be some distortion visible due to the weirdness of the skybox rendering method.

Haha, not a very helpful post, but hey good luck, do some research and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for

Do a Polar coordinates spherical unwrap on the square texture and it should wrap to a sphere without distortion.

I think there's a filter in the library to do that.