Cube maps service

The Cube Maps visualisation service allows you to see the location and content of the authored cube maps in your scene. It draws the cube maps as boxes over the scene, so it can be helpful to also change the renderer and rendering mode to Geometry and Wireframe through the Rendering tab.

There are options to display the authored boxes in either wireframe (default), as a solid colour, or textured with their lighting content. For all options there is a slider which can be used to fade the visualisation in or out to help visualise the cube maps alongside the rest of the scene. Each cube map is shown with a small central cube, denoting the location of the cube map, and a larger box, which shows the box the cube map lighting is projected onto and is the location the reflection appears to come from.

In addition to the above, the depth values stored for each cube map can be visualised. If the Show depth values box is ticked, GeoRadiosity will render the selected cube map as a shadowed point light and will colour visible surfaces red.