anchor.diff:  = How to create free SkyMaps
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   There are a plethora of ways to create skymaps with varying levels of difficulty and expense. The link:http://planetside.co.uk/[Terragen] program has been mentioned as one way to do so but it is now limited in its use and for commercial purposes is not free. Another program, link:https://www.daz3d.com/bryce-7-pro[Bryce], is also not free and seems to of stalled in development based off there only being a 32bit version available. Maybe they are doing things behind the scenes but its still not a free program. This articles intent is to give the JME3 user other options for the creation of skymaps using the free programs Blender and Gimp. It is not the be all, end all of skymap creation. If you know of better methods or tools please feel free to share your wisdom on the link:https://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/[forums].
  
positive.code: - [ ] With your first camera selected (in this case Camera-down) and your mouse inside the right side 3d view, press kbd:[Ctrl]+kbd:[NumPad 0] to set your selected camera to be the active camera. 
  - [ ] Press kbd:[F12] to render the scene. A image will appear in the left side UV/Image Editor.
  - [ ] With your mouse inside the left side UV/Image Editor you can scroll in or out to center the view.
  - [ ] With your mouse inside the left side UV/Image Editor press kbd:[F3] to save your image. Rename the image (down.jpg in this case). 
  
  Follow this same procedure for the remaining cameras. Rendering, renaming and saving each. After you have rendered all your images you can copy and paste them into your asset folder for JME3. Usually under the `Assets/Texture` directory. 
  
  To use your images in your code, in simpleInitApp(), load the Textures and use the SkyFactory to create your sky.
  
  
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  Many thanks go out to contributor glaucomardano for his video. He has excellent taste in music.
  
  Listed below are other Blender tutorials JME3 users may find valuable.
  
  *  link:https://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/cycles-skybox.php[Render a Skybox using Cycles]
  *  link:https://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/render-skybox.php[Render a Skybox Environment Map]
  