I also tried using the panorama as a material in the hi-res Poser ball prop. I had to reverse the normals to get the image to show on the inside of the sphere. Positioning was done with the sphere set to display in wire frame mode. It was also necessary to set the texture strength to 1.1 to keep the clouds from looking muddy. There is a demo version of Vue6 Esprit on the E-on Software site. You can't render images larger then 640X480 but I think that would be enough resolution to at least do some testing. Almost forgot to add that at the top and bottom of the spheres the panorama doesn't close together properly so looks odd. For most applications this shouldn't be a problem.