Custom Skyboxes

What exactly is the process?

I've been looking into creating custom skyboxes for sins and the dimensions of the process have me slightly confused. I was wondering if anyone could explain to me what would be the easiest way to do this?

From what I gathered the skybox is made up of two parts, the skyboxenviromentcube.dds which 1536x256 and is basically the six faces of a cube...

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1912/45705765bq2.jpg

and the skyboxbackdrop.dds which is 4096x1024

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Is the backdrop basically the wallpaper and the two right images just the sphereized top and bottom?

If anyone could toss in their input, it would be greatly appreciated.

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kryo

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AFAIK yes, it works just like the planet textures (paint the strip around the center and the round caps on the top and bottom) but inside-out. The environment cube map is a version of the skybox used for the reflection effects on ships (advent in particular).

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