I have a panoramic mountainous landscape photograph that I want to add to my vue project as a background. How do I apply it as a circular background so it looks right on every view? Any tutorials? Thanks

No tutorial but you can create a hollow cylinder around your scene then apply your image to it! Of course re-scale it to have a huge cylinder, your picture should be high resolution of course ... Yves

Thanks, How do I create a hollow cylinder? I tried boolean but I get two surfaces.

Boolean difference, and also the larger cylinder must be in first in the list

Thanks ...Now how do i convert this cylinder so it has an alpha chanel so my mountains have a profiled syluete and I can see the sky beyond. I cant figure it out. Thanks

I don't know Alpha planes ... But there are at least 2 tuts about them in the backroom, give it a look, maybe you will know how it works and apply it to your mountains, Yves

Good repllies. I usually just use a plane and adjust the viewing angle of the plane to get the perspective I want. To really make use of the alpha chanel remember that you have to have a pic file with alpha information such as a .tif jpgs don't have it.

This tutorial has the concept i was looking for.... thanks. http://www.solemnchaos.net/tutorials/vuecoffeepot.html