I made a background include file a while ago based on the code in NKFlare.
I'll post it in the text.scene-files group.

-Nathan

Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>     I'm working on a small project at the moment, and find that I need to use an
bitmap as
> a background image. It looks like I'm going to have to map this image to a plane,
and then
> mess about positioning and scaling the plane so that the image fits the screen
perfectly.
> Too large, and the bitmap will pixellate, or, if I use interpolate, blur.
>     It struck me that having an image_map available from within the 'background'
keyword
> would be very usefull ie
> 
> background { rgb <1,.3,.4> // colour that will only be visible in
refraction/reflection
>       image_map { gif "MyPic.gif"}
>                 }
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Also, why can't we have a global map that only shows up in reflections ( as in
Imagine )?
> Using the two methods combined would work well.
> 
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> Andy
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