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[tpastor]

I need to extract the one pixel from a CubeMap (I already have the 6 textures extracted) using the normal vector. How can I achieve this ?
I want something very similar to what texCUBE(link) does in GPU but in CPU.
I am using XNA and C#, but an example in any language may help.

[mrhyperpenguin]

The largest component of the normal vector tells you which face it intersects. Next divide the normal vector by the absolute value of the largest component. Then scale and shit the other two components into the usual range for uvs ([0, 1] on each axis).

For example if you had the vector <-3, -1, 2>.

First it intersects the negative x face. Then

<-3, -1, 2> / |-3| = <-1, -1/3, 2/3>.

Finally just scale the remaining two components from [-1, 1] to [0, 1], <-1/3, 2/3> * 0.5 + 0.5 = <2/3, 5/6>. And similarly for each other face.

Victor

[tpastor]

Thanks a lot !