Rendering a scene with a very wide FOV

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Yeah, this is possible. Panda3D does have a system built-in for this, the NonlinearImager, check this post for a code example:

CylindricalLens

Have a close look at the generated docs for NonlinearImager and related classes. You may also want to download the C++ source and read the nonlinearImager.h file, which may present the same information in a slightly more coherent form than the auto-generated docs. The following code is some sample code I threw together a few years back; it demonstrates using the NonlinearImager to create a fisheye and cylindrical lens projection of a world in a side-by-side display. David # Make the camera i…

However, it is fairly complex to set up, and the documentation is relatively sparse, so it may be easier to set up a render-to-texture setup with a cube map texture, and create your own geometry or shader to transform this into your desired configuration.