Sweet Home 3D and other

[Andrea V. <and...@gm...>]

Hello,

Sweet Home 3D (http://www.sweethome3d.com/index.jsp) is an amazing 
cross-platform tool (it is entirely written in Java) which permits,
in a very simple way, to create house interiors (and also exteriors). 

I think it could be very usefull to generate scenes for Pipmak, rendering is
quite good, with shadows and reflections.

It's possible to export spherical panoramas into equirectangular format.

Who knows a opensource/free converting tool for passing from equirectangular 
to cubic?

I have found "Pano2VR", which is very nice, but it isn't free
(Trial version put watermasks on outputs)

An idea: Why didn't include, inside Pipmak, a series of tools/functions
to convert various panorama formats? 

For example, saveequirect() is very usefull function, 
so we can include also other functions like:

bottom_img = getfromequirect(equi_img, "bottom")
left_img = getfromequirect(equi_img, "left")

What do you thinking about that?

See you

-Andrea