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title: "Skybox as Background"
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This page provides information about setting a skybox as a background in Enscape for SketchUp.


## **What is a Skybox?**

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A Skybox is an image that describes the look of your projects background environment. It’s basically a sphere that surrounds your project and which is textured with an image. As you know, textures are rectangles – if you want to map them onto a sphere, you have to unwrap the Skybox like it’s done with a world map. This format is called **Longitude/Latitude**, one term for one axis.

There is another way to save the Skybox into a file, unlike Longitude/Latitude. It is called the **cross format** and looks like an unfolded cube. Both image formats are supported and can be loaded into Enscape.


## **How Can I Load a Skybox?**

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## **Which Skyboxes are Supported?**

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We support horizontal and vertical cross Skyboxes – they have to match a resolution ratio of 4:3 (respectively 3:4 ). Panoramic Skyboxes should have a resolution ratio close to 2:1.



## **Where do I Get Free Skyboxes?**

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Check out our [content area](https://www.chaos.com/enscape/free-sample-projects) to download a fine selection of cubemaps, mostly from [Open Footage](https://www.openfootage.net/). Other sources are listed below.

- <span style="color: #272727">Shtlab</span>
- <span style="color: #272727">Zwischendrin</span>
- <span style="color: #272727">[Food4rhino](https://www.food4rhino.com/browse?searchterm=brianjames+hdr)</span>
- <span style="color: #272727">[Hdrlabs](https://hdrlabs.com/)</span>
- <span style="color: #272727">[Enscape3D](https://www.chaos.com/enscape/helpful-resources)</span>