It's entirely possible to make great skies in Bryce, it just requires that you spend a LOT of time in the DTE trying to make sense of what those idiots programmed... (Still, I love those idiots!) The Deep Texture Editor was, apparently, originally created only for the programmers to make Bryce preset texture, and was thrown in on Bryce 3D!'s Material Lab as a kind of "bonus", although how you can make procedural textures in Bryce without it is beyond me. Still, to answer your question? Sackrat was right, get Universe. Don't even waste your time with Bryce night skies... A child could do better with crayons. In the meantime try and use Photo Skies, you can find many online for free and simply map them to a 2D pict-object! Here's some links : (Astronomy Image-of-the-Day) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (Stellarium, a realtime 3D plantarium renderer) http://freeware.intrastar.net/planetarium.htm (and one other site I saw which had some cool pics...) http://www.astronomynz.org.nz/phoenix/images.htm Hope one of those helps!