Environment Texture Node¶

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Environment Texture Node.

The Node Environmental Texture is used to light your scene using an environment map image file as a texture.

Inputs¶

Vector: Texture coordinate for texture look-up. If this socket is left unconnected, the image is mapped as environment with the Z axis as up.

Properties¶

Image Data-Block

Image data-block used as the image source.

Color Space

Type of data that the image contains, either Color or Non-Color Data. For most color textures the default of Color should be used, but in case of e.g. a bump or alpha map, the pixel values should be interpreted as Non-Color Data, to avoid doing any unwanted color space conversions.

Texture Interpolation

Interpolation method used for the environment texture. The following interpolations are available:

Linear: Regular quality interpolation.
Closest: No interpolation, use closest pixel.
Cubic: Smoother, better quality interpolation.
Smart: Bicubic when magnifying, otherwise Bilinear is used. This is only available for OSL.

Projection Method

Allows you to use different types of environmental maps. The following methods are supported:

Equirectangular: Projection from an Equirectangular photo.
Mirror Ball: Projection from an orthographic photo or mirror ball.

Outputs¶

Color: RGB color from the image.

Examples¶

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HDR image from OpenFootage.net.