Skydomes and Background Images

Shadowchaser-Nightwind

I know I've been out of the loop for awhile, but it seems skydomes don't work quite like I remember.

I render with Iray, and it seems when I use a skydome it blacks out my scene.  If I leave off the dome then I can't seem to get an image to cover the background correctly.

And of course the lighting fiddling around due to not having the sky dome. I've been faking it halfway decent so far, but I don't like doing that. It's tedious and indicates to me I"m not properly using DS to it's full potential. 

So if anyone has any suggestions, instructions, or a location of current information, I am definitely up for learning a better way.

If you made it this far, thanks and yes I do believe I'm whining.

Fishtales

Skydomes don't work in Iray unless you fiddle around with them. Delete them and use the Diffuse Map used on the Skydome in the Environment Map of the Iray Dome.

Shadowchaser-Nightwind

Thank you!

I'll give that a try.

fastbike1

@Shadowchaser

There are many Iray sky packages that will simplify your task.