need sky/clouds background

[pjacobson]

Where can I get some typical sky and cloud backgrounds to add to my building models?

[Secretia Green]

LOL.

[Jude Alexander]

Building models? Do you mean model as in balsa wood, etc? I thought at first you meant in drawing presentation but you said building models???

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[Ron]

[e-mail] wrote in news:1187355571.216705.44220 @i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

First I'm dissapointed in the childish responses you got to the term model. Yes, maybe its technically a 'virtual' model, but model is the term most use when working in true 3D, ie Revit or Sketchup, etc.

I would look through some of the photography sites. ie photo.net I think is one. Depending on the model you may want a fairly large file. good luck.

[++]

Do you have a child? Can you hand him a white crayon and blue paper? A blue crayon and white paper? Wanna get fancy. Give him a few shades of grey.

[Michael (LS)]

Dosch Design has a bunch of nice stuff (including HDRI skies), as does ImageCELS, Artbeats, Evermotion, Marlin Studios, Photodisc, Renderosity, etc. I guess it depends upon how high a resolution you need and what kind of sky you want, most "collections" come with a variety - for instance ImageCELS "Professional Designer" comes with ~ 500 objects, 280 textures, and 25 skies. The skies include beach, lake, field, mountains, and a variety of skies - clear, slightly cloudy, tranquil, stormy, etc. The problem is that with only 25 it doesn't necessarily have a "lake" sky that is "stormy". A bigger collection would however have more to pick from.

HTH,

Michael (LS)

[Edgar]

If you have a camera you have your answer. If you have a picture of something outdoors and a scanner, you have your answer.

[Edgar]

Wow a painter too. Impressive. I've used my own random picture's skies in

3D models before, it's a pretty obvious thing. You can probably see a sky in 80 percent of pictures you've ever taken. With digicams the skies the limit :-P (ok really the memory card is the limit, but I liked the pun).

[Kris Krieger]

[e-mail] wrote in news:1187355571.216705.44220 @i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

Honest folks, good products :)

- K.

[Kris Krieger]

"Don" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Heh - Tom Marlin has a wry sense of humor. He used to be a steady contributor to a 3D email list I was on, but eventually had to drop it to devote more time to his growing business (truely a small entrepeneurial businessman!) and work on his book. I like much of his 3D work - he started in 3D and his business grew out of the niche he saw he coudl build by fulfilling the need for good-quality ready-made textures.

Thsi is one of my favorites:

I've enjoyed a lot of his work.

[Kris Krieger]

"Don" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Oh yeah...I have a dim recollection... Uh-oh, I *must* be getting old, I'm repeating my stories

((I remember when gas was $0.25 a gallon...))