Question 360 degree sky pic - and UV question

[MDutton]

Hello,

Does anyone have a spare HDRI of the sky he could share?

I looked around on the net and most of the 360 degree sky views are either paid (too much for me post credit crunch) or the link is down

The idea is to put the view onto a half-dome in Maya 2009 64 bit. Then do the sun with directional lights.

My other question is....how do I get the picture (I am using a test jpeg at the moment) to show in the persp view? When I use a lambert or surface shader, then attach the pic by using the colour swatch in "attributes" I can not actually see the picture - not even when rendered. This means I can not use cylindrical mapping of the UVs to position the picture how I want it.

[MDutton]

I find it, typical . http://lfgrafix.com/index.html

Now, how to actually see it when I put it on a sphere :\

[ragupasta]

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[edge_666]

HDRI 001 – Free Sky HDRI Available | d i g i t e c t u r e

Evermotion did a free cd of non tested HRDI skies about 4 or 5 years ago, although it isn't available at evermotion anymore you can still find it online. I still have all the images and would be willing to upload them here if a mod says its ok.

The ifgrafix 360 skies are just images not hri i dont think.