how to make a sky....??

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# 1 04-03-2006 , 12:08 AM

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hey i was wondering how to make a sky for this screenshot i just am trying to make a sky so i can make it look real. thanks ~jeff. https://www.freewebs.com/starjsjswars/picture.htm

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# 2 04-03-2006 , 05:42 PM

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you might try to render clouds and put them into the background as a 2D image. Darrin Krumweide did a interesting video tut on layering environments.

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# 3 04-03-2006 , 05:49 PM

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If you want a reall easy way round get a sky image off the internet via google, create a nurbs or poly plane move it to the back if the scene and scale it so it fills your render camera's resolution gate, then add the image to it via a new material

PS - try to get a nice hi res sky image

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# 4 04-03-2006 , 08:22 PM

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yeah i know how to do that i was just wondering if there was another was how to.. thanks.

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# 5 04-03-2006 , 08:42 PM

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lol but i don't know how to make a cloud. how do i?

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# 6 04-03-2006 , 08:57 PM

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https://localhost:4449/Maya7.0/en_US/index.html

just look for particle or cloud. you have plenty of basic information as well as small tutorials in the docs.

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