Make a skybox look like a sphere instead of a cube

Unity Engine
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Hello everyone,

I’m creating my first skybox in Unity and I chose an available sky photo as base.
See here: https://c.pxhere.com/photos/72/07/dramatic_clouds_drama_sky_mood_dramatic_sky_dramatic_clouds_weather_mood-1393622.jpg!d

I cut out images like for a cubemap but each side as own image.

When I put them together in a skybox however, it literally looks like a box.

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Actually I want to look it like the panorama or a sphere around the player.

How do I achieve this?
I thought about distorting the images so that it looks like you are inside a sphere
but I have no idea how I can do this, are there tools available enabling to do so?

Thanks for all you help in advance. :slight_smile:

Regards tobbit

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You can’t properly use a single photo for a cubemap. You need a ~panoramic set of photos and need to unwrap them as the cubemap requires.

If you wanted to use a single photo and enjoy hideous stretching then you simply need to unwrap it correctly. It looks like you didn’t do that and the corners don’t match correctly because of it.