Spherical Sky Background

[helmutcad]

Hello, I'm new with 3DS and I follow some tutorial about this, but the result looks very bad. Can you help me please. File is attached. Thanks

[Brian Smith]

This is not a spherical sky image, it's a cylindrical sky image, and a very nice one. Although it would still look fairly decent, it would look much better on a cylinder. In case you don't know what I mean, take a cylinder and make it enclose your entire scene. Add the normal modifier to flip the normals. Add a material with the image to the cylinder and use the UVW Map modifier to control its mapping better. As long as you're view doesn't look up too much, you will see the image fine.

[alikashan]

This is not a spherical sky image, it's a cylindrical sky image, and a very nice one. Although it would still look fairly decent, it would look much better on a cylinder. In case you don't know what I mean, take a cylinder and make it enclose your entire scene. Add the normal modifier to flip the normals. Add a material with the image to the cylinder and use the UVW Map modifier to control its mapping better. As long as you're view doesn't look up too much, you will see the image fine.

i never had success with this sperical dome thing but lemme try your tip

thnx:cool:

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

i think this is a flat half sperical sky from 1000 skies.com.

 

if the cylinder does not work, try mapping it to a half of a spere, using cylindrical mapping.

[STRAT]

you can always make a normal sky map into a cylindrical sky map that match up on both perfectly in photoshop. quite a reletively simple job.