Spherical background without using HDRI in Vray Sketchup

Dennis, aka proseduction has shared his workflow how to use images as background without using HDRI. Here is his workflow.

Denns' method:

















Small explanation:

I placed a circle round my model and turns this in a cylinder. Then I deleted the planes of the cylinder. I made a plane that has the exact height as the cylinder. This is because when you apply the texture within the cylinder it will give you a small piece of the cylinder with the texture and not the whole cylinder.

Than i import the picture / panorama by file -> import -> jpg as texture and place this on the plane. The you can go to the pain bucket and apply the texture on the inside of the cylinder.

More of Dennis work in his site. HERE