"DCZX" <dow### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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>
> I can render objects okay, but how do I set a background image, like a
> starfield TGA for instance?

One way, and the least trouble if you have a image already made for mapping
to a sphere, is:

sky_sphere {
    pigment {
        image_map {
            tga "stars.tga"
            map_type 1 // for spherical
        }
    }
}

Other than that you could use a plane set far in the background, having that
pigment statement but using map_type 0 for planar mapping and scaling
appropriately.

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