I added a cube texture to my ray tracer but there are seams along the borders: http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/6954/seamds7.jpg You can see the left seam going up clearly. There is also a subtle seam at the top going from left to right. Anyone know what might be causing this? I checked my six images in photoshop and they are seamless. I determine the face the lookup vector hits by looking at the coordinate with the largest magnitude. Then I use the other two coordinates as 2D texture coordinates on that face, transforming them to [0, 1]. For example, the code to handle the case where the x-coord has the greatest magnitude (mag) and is positive: case POS_X: { u = 1.0f - 0.5f*(texC.z/mag + 1.0f); v = 0.5f*(texC.y/mag + 1.0f); j = (int)(u*(width-1) ); i = (int)(v*(height-1) ); return image[POS_X][i*width+j]; } Obviously some filtering could hide the seams a bit better, but should it be seamless without it when working per pixel?

You need to be careful when rounding your coordinates obviously, because they could end up the wrong side (outside) of your texture.

If you cannot ensure that your calculation will end on the right side, you can always clamp (saturate) before doing the texture read :

    i = min(max(i, 0), width - 1);    j = min(max(j, 0), height - 1);

LeGreg

You also made a mistake when scaling your texcoord.

When going from normalized to unnormalized texture coordinate, the scaling ratio is not (width -1) but (width), because you're expanding the range from [0..1[ to [0..width[.
Of course then you increase your risk of overreading (reading outside your texture), but it should be okay if you're clamping your coordinates correctly.

LeGreg