Skybox, Cubemap License

Just a quick question about the asset that comes with the demo project. What’s the license for the helipad cubemap? Can I use it in commercial projects? I havn’t found the source.
If not were to find cubemaps for commercial products? I’ve googled a little bit, but I’m not satisfied.

I believe helipad came from here:

http://www.kostas.se/koddes-hdrlabs-com-sibl-archive-cube-map-pack/

They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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The Unity assets store has many of them. Some for free too I think. I’m not 100% sure if the format is compatible but it might be worth checking.

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I’ve found the link to the assets of PlayCanvas and the Cubemaps

But can anybody give me some more advice. I wasn’t able to create a own cubemap. Does anybody know a good tutorial for that or how to convert an 360 HDRi to a cubemaps?

@Patrick_Munster cubemaps being created from 360 HDRIs has historically been quite a bit of a mystery to me too until literally moments ago.

If you’re familiar with Blender, following the steps here

https://aerotwist.com/tutorials/create-your-own-environment-maps/

seems to both (1) visually show you the fundamental idea of the 6 positions a virtual camera takes 6 separate pictures (they are all taken, directed along the axes, from the center of a sphere mesh that the HDRI is presumably ‘UV sphere projected’ onto) and (2) do it for you (including if you replace the example HDRI jpg file with your own).

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Thanks For your answer, that was interesting!
I want to add one more Link to that topic. I’ve found a Cubemap creator script for Blender that worked with a couple of clicks :slightly_smiling_face:


You just have to asign a 360 HDRI to the sky or to a sphere, activate the addon and press the render button. It works for me and now I can create Cubemaps from every 360 HDRI.

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