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This Maya/mental ray lens shader (source code included) renders a full panoramic view of a scene in latitude/longitude format.
A tutorial on how to use the shader and to render HDR environment maps for image based lighting from Maya scenes (with a little shader tweaking) can be found at:
https://www.vi-motion.de/latlong_Tutorial/
Update:
Now with Linux version and Hypergraph icon (thanks to Colin and Rina Strause).
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