How to Create a Custom Hand Painted Skybox

There are worlds of fun to have out there when it comes to skyboxes. A skybox is the most distant background visual in your scene, other than the sun. Background landscapes can place the viewer on mars, the old west, underwater or wherever the imagination can take you. If you have ever wanted to create your own hand painted skybox before, you have come to the right place.

I will be using Photoshop and Unity in this article.

Let’s begin in Photoshop by creating a blank 4k document.

Head to the 3D tab and scroll down to the Spherical Panorama option, and then select New Panorama Layer from Selected Layers.

There should now be one background layer with a texture and a Sphere Map attached.

The bottom left of the canvas should now have a 3D widget.