yep I agreee that the image I used was a bit on the crap side, Although at the time that was the best I could do the alternative as I used fo the final render is to go out with a camera use the highest resolution it can and take photos 360 degrees around you, then tak these into photo shop and manually put them together although it doesn't have to be anything like a masterpiece, just try your best to get stuff aligned and blur the edges then you should have a very wide panoramic image which you then need to turn into an HRD image (look on google for tuts) then simply drop it in place of your image you have at the moment Hope you enjoyed the tut