Am I doing something wrong? All I get rendered is a massive picture looking all distorted, like I'm looking with a drug induced left eye through a rat's ass! :-) Am I supposed now to go in a paint program like PSP and devide the thing up in my 6 sides of the SkyBox?

Metaballs! See, I can't even SPELL it right! :-)

Isn't there a way to make it smoother and less bumpy? I don't like meraballs cos I can't control it! Aaaarggh!

I haven't, cos I think my machine is too sloooowwww.... :-) But, in light of what I want to do, will panoramic rendered environments suit my purpose? And what quality will it be. You know that you should have the best quality pics for the best effect of course... Thanks for your help, clay. I visited your site and I realised you are professional in the field. I really DO appreciate your help! It's thanks to you and others that these forums are such a terrific help. Hopefully I'd gain enuff knowledge here and later on, so that I can help others in turn. Thanks!

Is it better to render the 4 sides by rotating the camera 90 degrees, or will it be better to pan the camera a few, er... what?... metres/feet/units?... so that you can get better sky and floor pics? Thing is, I don't want to struggle with sides not lining up perfectly... I'm using PSP6, do you know of a way to do this? To MAKE the 6 sides fit perfectly? The reason why I ask if it will be better to pan the camera rather than to rotate it, is because I found that I cant get the sides to line up right, because I'd get two different angles of the same spot - on the border where the two sides or the two images should meet.