How to render 360 images in Blender.

In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to turn any scene into a HDRI (360) within Blender.

Finally someone who makes an easy to understand tutorial about how to create an environmental map in Blender. Thank you!

[The-cyber-imbiber]

Man... while watching this video I was thinking about how difficult the math looks for an hdri render... I'm guessing that there's lots and lots of advance linear algebra and quaternion math. It makes me feel thankful that I live in a time where I don't have to worry about any of that. I can just make creative artistic things and let someone else handle the software engineering.

[AceTop]

Hi Blender Buzz, thank you for the tutorial.
One note: If you save the image in PNG format, it will be only an environmental texturre, but not a HDRI.

[spencerlinkous]

Nice! Works with blender 2.8 as well. :)

[viniciusiutubiu]

Cool tutorial, tsk for that.
Man, would this 360 render method work to render an illustration made with grease pencil in blender viewport ?

[guy_incognito]

Thank you! Really helpful! Also, thank you for NOT starting with a cube! ;-)

[jonny]

Any ideas on how to render a 360 image so that you can look around an environment from a fixed spot? similar to google earth for example. I have made a model that was originally for animation, although animating it would take up too much time and I realized moving parts aren't really important for the purpose. A still image that users could look around by clicking and dragging would work wonderfully.

[inevitablecraftslab]

how is this HDRI, shouldnt you raise the bitdepth/dynamicrange to generate an hdri? this seems to be just an equirectangular rendering.

[noobking]

mmmm my object texture is not rendered to the object. I am trying to render a scene done in another program. but the object appears textured in the "blender" setting?

edit: wait I figured it out. thanks for the vid by the way

[leolee]

Doesn't show up that Panoramic Type menu.

[ramoverboard]

can you have 3d characters walk on the ground with a Hdri image, and is there a way to level the ground? or would a HDR be used normally as just a sky?

[jcuadrado]

Question,
I can olny see the hdri if i see through the camera, cant just from panning around,
What have i done wrong?

[sambarnes]

I bet that the intro was a blender animation

[jonmccollister]

"In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to turn any scene into a HDRI within Blender."

"I am aware that this is not technically an HDRI, But nether the less, it can be used for really good environmental lighting."

So do you know how to actually make an HDRI or are you just trying to get views lol