As you may know, I jumped into P6 from P4 Pro Pack and I'm confuddled. I've got my figure worked out, and I've got the material room down fairly well. I got my scenery in place and managed to get the ground textured. What I'd like now is to get a nice sky in the background where all the brown is.

a) can someone turn me in the right direction
b) is this an appropriate way to ask these questions. I did search, but I always feel bad making stupid little posts like this for what is probably really an easy thing.

RDNA has a "Sky Dome" that might work. It's in their free stuff area. Search for "Dome".

Aside from that, what would you normally use, a standard plane with an image applied?

place a sphere, scale way up, turn "casts shadows" off then add a cloud node to it, or something else for different effect

get Terragen (Planetside, or go to the Terragen forum), tilt up slightly, make a sky, then save as a jpg. Import Background picture, n' there you are..;) I do the same thing with Mojoworld, meself..;)

terragen is great if you want to add mountains with the sky :)

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=902892

terragen is fantastic for realistic backgrounds and it's free

Although Poser 6 allows you to import a background image in the same way as ProPack does, I never use it (I think I've heard of some bugs with it, anyway). If it's an "infinite background" you want, like sky, then I'd advise exporting your render to PSD or TIFF, then use the alpha channel to composite a sky background post-render. For more close-up backgrounds, like cityscapes, it's helpful to apply your background to a flat plane behind the scene, so you can adjust perspective and so on.