:Frio's: Skysphere (Black Hole) Version 1.0

Nothing's gonna give you a deeper tan than hanging out in close orbit of a black hole, soaking in those x- and gamma rays from the beautiful blue glow of the accretion disk. Perfect for beach scenes. Or end of the world.

A bundle of a simple mesh skysphere and skybox (hollow shells to decorate your surroundings with a background texture, that is) to use with cubemapped environment textures, as well as extra large sizes built from oldschool megaprims. Fully modifiable for size, rotation, glow, color tinting, etc. You can't scale the megaprims, though (they'd stop being mega-) but a script is included to make custom sizes from your own megaprims!

For the cubemaps, 6 separate texture faces allows very high resolution background compared to an ordinary sphere (6 x 1024x1024, vs. simple sky spheres with just 1 texture). For the megaprim builds, the resolution is not quite as high (4x 1024x1024), but still 4x sharper than normal single-texture backgrounds.

The cubemap sphere version uses 16 LI at maximum 64x64x64 meter size. The box version uses 1 LI at *any* size! Megaprims should cap out around 13 LI.

You can also use your own cubemap textures if you have some and don't mind using the Build tool. You could also use your own equirectangular panoramic textures (cut into 4 parts) for the megaprims. Can't really help you with the texture conversion work, so that's more for an adventurous approach.

Galaxy background "An Elsewhere Starfield" courtesy of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.