Sorry if the title sounds retarded, wasn't sure about the proper way to word it.
I live in British Colombia, Canada, and as such the landscape seen around my city would make for a fantastic skybox. Unfortunately there's no one area in town that has a clear view of everywhere (unless I get to the top of a very tall building?) and even then I don't know the first thing about doing a panoramic shot properly.
I have 8 megapixel camera which I suspect would do the picture just fine, I just don't know where to go from there.
Here's an example. I see these mountains everyday coming home from school.
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sKcovaA9Nt0/S1gUpgML3ZI/AAAAAAAAFb4/r_cMVHNax8k/s400/xMAS+pHOTOS+271.jpg[/img]
Just to be the thorough bastard I am, google maps streetview of them.
[url=http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=228+St,+Maple+Ridge,+Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=41.137032,79.013672&ie=UTF8&geocode=FY0f7wIdkWux-A&split=0&hq=&hnear=228+St,+Maple+Ridge,+Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia&ll=49.227926,-122.590342&spn=0.005059,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=49.228211,-122.590347&panoid=xrpfZ7xir9QBrZKybRAT5Q&cbp=12,21.41,,0,4.1]Google maps make them look much smaller, they look way the hell bigger in person[/url]
You get to see those mountains everyday when you come home?!?! Lucky bastard.
[editline]20th December 2010[/editline]
Also i would think you would need a wider lens camera
What you need is a tripod and a primitive compass to mark the 45 degree points of the tripod's yaw. Spin the tripod, snap the photos at the right points, then sew them all together in Photoshop to create your 180° panorama.
[QUOTE=Tanner;26840793]What you need is a tripod and a primitive compass to mark the 45 degree points of the tripod's yaw. Spin the tripod, snap the photos at the right points, then sew them all together in Photoshop to create your 180° panorama.[/QUOTE]
While that would work, how would he go about making the sky directly above?
Best I could think to do would be to take a shot, and if it doesn't fit in properly, use photoshop's content awareness to fix it.
Panoramas are piss easy these days, just find some panoramic stitcher program that does what you want, take a fuckton of pictures making sure to cover every angle, plug it in and let the stitcher do it's thing.
Oh yeah, don't use autofocus, don't use autocolour, don't use autoexposure, it only works well if they are all taken with exactly the same settings.
[editline]21st December 2010[/editline]
Honestly though you should probably do mountains in a 3D skybox, although this would be significantly harder, it would end up looking better.
Could do them like Valve did the mountains in Ep2. Make it billboard material on a nodraw brush.
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