About cubic environment mapping

It should be at the place where you display your cubemap afterwards.

Eg. if you have an object you would like to apply a reflective cubemap to, then place the camera at the center of that object, and render the geometry around it to the 6 sides of the cubemap (but skip the object itself !).

Don''t forget to set your camera to a FOV of 90°.

/ Yann

Does setting a larger FOV (e.g., 95 degrees) help?

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Does setting a larger FOV (e.g., 95 degrees) help?

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Well, you''ll introduce discontinuities at the edges of the cubemap for every FOV other than exactly 90°. But for special effects (esp. refractive), it can be useful.

Okay.

But if I want to render several objects with environment mapping, do I have to draw for each object four times the scene?

Since you will have to re-render the cubemap for each object ( as they are at different positions/orientations, and can see different things etc ), yes, you will.

Death of one is a tragedy, death of a million is just a statistic.

Although... If you have a static scenery, you could compute the cubemaps at run-time, save them somewhere, and only render the dynamic objects ontop of them... perhaps... Wait... no.. you won''t have depth information to do that... well, perhaps a variation on that.

Death of one is a tragedy, death of a million is just a statistic.

For instance, if you take a look at the water effect in Morrowind. Do they render cube maps for every triangles of the water surface?

they dont use cubemaps. they render the scene mirrored at the waterplane, then copy this on texture (or render it on texture directly.. blah).
this one is then used on the rippled water surface wich displaces the texturecoordinates a little (per vertex or perpixel with pixelshaders, dunno) to get the waves working.

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