Realistic backgrounds

SketchUp
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All,

Looking for some advice. I do a lot of work in the Palm Springs area and the mountains are important for visualization of my projects. What is the best way to get a 360 background around a model?

I’ve tried:

  1. Shooting a panorama with my camera and pasting in on a curved plane. Works for one view but not others.
  2. Loading topography of the area from geo-location, model is WAY to big to function.
  3. Tried Placemaker, cannot seem to get a large enough area to be useful.
  4. Tried Google Earth, can’t seem to figure out how that works. Won’t render.

Hive mind, thoughts?

Thanks,

Steve from PSP

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Google search for HDRI will bring many choices, some free, some $$$

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360 - created using a few photos stitched together

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There’s a plugin called sky dome, it has some preloaded hdri images and you can also download more from internet and use them with that plugin as well

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Check my. , YouTube video for CONTINUOUS BACKGROUND on my Channel, Christopher A Krupp architect for a SU native tools method that requires no extension. You can use your own photos.
26 more SU vids as well, check em all out.

Chris