Here’s a challenge for you smart people … Is it possible to project a PhotoDome equirectilinear texture onto a ground plane such that it still looks accurate (not distorted) from the camera position and roughly matches / joins up with the PhotoDome at the horizon? Here’s an illustration: [pano-pr…

Cross posting here as this solved a combination of challenges for me: [image] Apply alpha mask texture to water material? Questions I solved it, at least for my use case … https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#14KRGG#200

No brave souls yet? I guess this must be more challenging than I thought :smirk:

Even if possible, I don’t think the shadows will look “real” on this plane: some part of the plane will be darken by the shadow but not the “right” part because you don’t have enough data about the photodome to put the shadow at the right location (photodome is really only 6 planes). The photodome c…

Yup like @Evgeni_Popov I am almost sure it won t look great :frowning: it is actually similar to cast shadows from environment lighting and I am not aware of any solution so far. But in case you find a solution, please share :slight_smile:

Thanks @Evgeni_Popov and @sebavan . I thought that I might be able to render photodome to texture from active camera then project rendered texture onto ground geometry from camera position and orientation, similar to how real-time shadows are generated (except they project from light point of view) …

Apparently this can be done with a custom shader - Babylon.js Playground

PhotoDome equirectilinear texture projected onto ground plane?

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Cross posting here as this solved a combination of challenges for me:

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