Sky Sphere?

[Colonel Panic]

I'm trying to make a sort of sky dome for one of my maps, and all the tutorials I've seen on it either re-use someone else's sky-dome (which won't work for me since I need a full-spherical shape with specific tessellation) or doesn't go any further into detail on it than to say to "invert the normals". I don't know what this means or how to do it, but I assume it's why i can't get it to work, since only solid polys seem to export from maya via actor-x, and I need a hollow shape so that I can render things inside of it and see the textures.

Can anyone explain how I can do this?

TL;DR: tell me how to make a hollow sphere mesh with maya.

[YoYoBatty]

Just duplicate the hemisphere skybox thingy and flip it upside down forming a nice sphere. Re-build ur map and test it!

[Colonel Panic]

Originally Posted by YoYoBatty

Just duplicate the hemisphere skybox thingy and flip it upside down forming a nice sphere. Re-build ur map and test it!

Doesn't work. Like I said, I need the shape and tessellation to fit my textures.

[dextronaut]

Originally Posted by Colonel Panic

Doesn't work. Like I said, I need the shape and tessellation to fit my textures.

are you making a outer space map where you can see the entire skybox?

[Colonel Panic]

Originally Posted by dextronaut

are you making a outer space map where you can see the entire skybox?

That's the idea, yes.

[YoYoBatty]

Right, sorry didn't no what u meant!

[Colonel Panic]

I got it figured out. You need to find the drop down menu in the upper left and set it to polys, then you can select normal->invert in the top menu.