sky dome creation(solved)

[3DModelerMan]

Hey I was wondering how I can distort an image that I made in photoshop elements into a skydom that's easy to use.
Thanks .

[night_hawk]

Map it on a sphere.

[bitplane]

Not sure about Photoshop but in GIMP you can use the "polar coords" option in the filters menu to turn something like this-


(that's me playing with my steel gazing globe)

into something like this-


looks like this in irrlicht-



Side note: I'm thinking Autostitch is a much nicer, higher resolution way of doing things, but you have to credit the software if you use it and also I haven't figured out a way to make it wrap nicely with the brightness correction.



(Taken last night, I missed the rainbow and interesting cloud formations by 10 mins .. but it was my first attempt )

[3DModelerMan]

The polar coords works really well, Thanks