Does anyone know how I can make a realistic sky for animation purposes. I’m trying to make a mountain range scene with a camera panning through.
M@dcow put up a bunch of high quality sky maps for free: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=24038.
Load one as a texture in the world buttons. In the world buttons, map to panel, turn off Blend and turn on Hori. Then in the preview panel turn on Real. In the Texture and Input panel turn on Sphere. This should give you a good sky.
-Laurifer