I agree with that, but with some clever scaling you can get pretty good effects
just using a sky sphere (look at my grassy julia picture for an example
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com/gallery/finished/grassy.jpg).

Though you're right, a large sphere centered far below the scene is the most
realistic method.

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Tek
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"Christopher James Huff" <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> In article <3f30ce64@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>
> wrote:
>
> > ... you don't put it on the sky_sphere. You should use eg. a horizontal
> > plane instead.
>
> I dislike plane skies, for their infinite horizon effects. I recommend a
> big hollow sphere centered far below the scene instead...I do not find a
> plane to be "good enough".
>
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