Rotate equirectangular environment map with new PMREM Generator

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With the old workflow, it was quite easy to rotate the environment map. The solution was to simply rotate the cube camera in fromEquirectangularTexture() before using the PMREM Generator.

With the new version of the Generator that handles the whole workflow, I cannot seem to find a solution. I guess it all happens in the equirectangular shader that is applied to the _lodPlanes. Any tips would be welcome.

P.S. Rotating the scene is not an option :wink:

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I finally found the solution.

If any body is interested, here is how I solved it:
The rotation shall be applied to the direction returned by the getDirection() function in the vertex shader code. I created a new uniform called angle to control it.
For my application I only need the rotation around the Y axis.

precision mediump float;
precision mediump int;
attribute vec3 position;
attribute vec2 uv;
attribute float faceIndex;
varying vec3 vOutputDirection;
uniform float angle;

mat3 getRotationMatrix(vec3 axis, float angle) {
    axis = normalize(axis);
    float s = sin(angle);
    float c = cos(angle);
    float oc = 1.0 - c;

    return mat3(oc * axis.x * axis.x + c,           oc * axis.x * axis.y - axis.z * s,  oc * axis.z * axis.x + axis.y * s,
                oc * axis.x * axis.y + axis.z * s,  oc * axis.y * axis.y + c,           oc * axis.y * axis.z - axis.x * s,
                oc * axis.z * axis.x - axis.y * s,  oc * axis.y * axis.z + axis.x * s,  oc * axis.z * axis.z + c);
}

vec3 getDirection(vec2 uv, float face, float rotationY) {
	uv = 2.0 * uv - 1.0;
	vec3 direction = vec3(uv, 1.0);
	if (face == 0.0) {
		direction = direction.zyx;
		direction.z *= -1.0;
	} else if (face == 1.0) {
		direction = direction.xzy;
		direction.z *= -1.0;
	} else if (face == 3.0) {
		direction = direction.zyx;
		direction.x *= -1.0;
	} else if (face == 4.0) {
		direction = direction.xzy;
		direction.y *= -1.0;
	} else if (face == 5.0) {
		direction.xz *= -1.0;
	}

    mat3 rotationMatrix = getRotationMatrix(vec3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0), -rotationY);
    direction = rotationMatrix * direction;

	return direction;
}
void main() {
	vOutputDirection = getDirection(uv, faceIndex, angle);
	gl_Position = vec4( position, 1.0 );
}
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I have the same problem .

could you give me full code please

THX

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it’s awesome and like it

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@Scrubs Could you send the full code that implement with above shader?