Skydome?

[MannyG]

This is my first post so sorry if its a newbish question but ive been looking for a tutorial on creating a skydome..any help or ideas?..much thanks

[Horhe]

In what 3d package? What lighting plugin?

[Ricardo Eloy]

Using Max, you can try it's native skydome, but I wouldn't advice actually using it in production. Assuming you dont have acess to other renderers, you can try using the ring technique. It's very easy and effective, and there's a tut in the forum. Type "Delfoz ring technique" in the search engine and you'll find it. It's a very old thread, but still useful.

[MannyG]

Im not really worried about the lighting, what i want is to just have a sky. I have my model and the lighting i just want a sky. I searched the ring technique but that has to do with lighting. I tried making a sphere and just reversing the normals so the sky map is on the inside but it renders black. im on max 9 if it helps

[Tommy L]

You need a spherical map in the environment slot. Go to the rendering dropdown, environment, then browse for a map. You then have to drag the map into the material editor and change the maps' mapping mode to spherical.

Before you do this, you'll need a spherical environment map. Search on google, try evermotion.org/net (cant remember www suffix) and go from there.

To be honest, you should just go through the help files.

[MannyG]

Thanks that did the trick for now...i messed with it to get things how i wanted them its just for a simple project im doing nothing huge just to show enviorment.