360° Render Settings (For Images and Video) - Blender Tutorial

How to setup your scene for 360° videos, environment textures, mirror spheres, little planets and many more using Blender 2.8x / 2.9?
Watch this quick tutorial and learn how!

This works with older and newer versions of Blender.

!! Cycles render engine natively only for now !!

HOWEVER
There is a workaround to get this working with EEVEE
It is still quite demanding, but way faster than cycles

Check out this tutorial (longer)
https://youtu.be/ND8T5_VCcN0

Shorter version
https://youtu.be/vUOcrwWvySs

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First steps for:
Environment texture (HDRI)
Mirror spheres
Tiny planet (see tutorial, link at bottom)
360 video to YouTube

1) Create your scene (add animation to make it more interesting)
2) Switch to cycles, set camera type to Panoramic / panorama type to Equirectangular (tweak the clipping if objects are close to camera)
3) Set resolution to 2:1, 7168 x 3584px or lower, tweak your samples, light paths, GPU rendering of you have good graphics card etc.
4) Render your animation to PNG (you can pause and continue versus video you have to render everything right away)
(OPTIONAL: Use the new denoise node (blender 2.81 and above)
5) ? You can use this footage as your environment texture or add this as a image shader to UVsphere and shade it smooth or make little planets (see link at the bottom for a tutorial)

360° video steps:

1) Open blender with Video Editing (Video sequence editor / VSE)
2) Add the image sequence, set scene frames, set the same resolution, you can tweak the frame rate and color correct if that is your thing.
3) Render to FFmpeg / MPEG-4 / H.264 codec with a high quality of your choosing (I would choose High, Lossless takes so much disk space)
4) Open your video with Spatial Media Metadata Injector and Inject "My video is spherical (360)" and save a new video (see link at the bottom to download)
5) ? Upload to Youtube and enjoy!

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Download Google's Spatial Media Metadata Injector here:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6178631 (Step 2)

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Remember: 360 videos are not VR or 3D videos.
There are Google's instructions at the same page you can download the metadata program.
Those videos usually require you to render left and right eye to have the right effect = double renders.

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Watch my 360 video that was in the intro:
(You can also use mobile gyro to rotate) https://youtu.be/8LsfE_BnVZc

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Tiny planets
Create Tiny Planets Fast (Blender Tutorial) by CGMatter: https://youtu.be/zMnhYIxq0xM?t=45

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I hope this video made any sense. Thanks for watching!

Add a comment to your 360 content if you make any, I would love to see it!
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Tags:
Blender 2.81, 2.82, 2.83, hdri, environment texture, #b3d #360

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