Spherical Environment Mapping

Spherical environment mapping—often called "sphere mapping"—textures an object with an image or lighting effects of the space surrounding the object, where that space is encoded into a specially formatted texture map. The following topics introduce the concept of sphere mapping, and provide information about how you can use it in your Direct3D applications.

• What Are Spherical Environment Maps?
• Texture Coordinates for Spherical Environment Maps
• Applying Spherical Environment Maps