Quote -  I'm not sure what you mean by "speed purposes" LOL. What most of use do is set up an empty scene, add the envirosphere, add our image of choice to the envirosphere and save that scene as the default scene in General Preferences. That way, everytime you start a new document, the envirosphere loads. Laurie

At this point I have misunderstood something...

I was thinking to add an Envsphere, or at least something like that, as BB said:

Quote - IDL is not on?

OK then I misunderstood what you meant when you said you were using the Envirosphere.

So you're not using the EnvSphere for its light, nor its reflections? Then why mention it? Or are you using a reflecting skin shader?