Use a fulldome image in OpenSpace

Here, we walk through the steps needed to display a fulldome frame in OpenSpace.

1. Convert the fulldome frame to a 360 image with equirectangular projection

2. Use the 360 image as the texture for a RenderableSphereImageLocal

3. Move the camera inside the rendered sphere, to the center of the sphere, and look towards the hemisphere which has the desired view.

1. Convert the fulldome frame to a 360 image

This can be done with Blender with the use of this blend file or using other tools like OCVWarp

2. Create a renderable sphere

An example of a renderable sphere created in this manner using a local texture is described in another howto article.

3. Move the camera

If the renderable sphere is scaled to be very large, the camera would already be inside the sphere with the default view, and only yaw/pitch adjustments may need to be made.