Placing a skybox

Hello everyone. I want to build a simple skybox. Is there a tutorial somewhere that explains the correct way of placing it?

Couple of common ways:

- Build it on the ground and link all the prims together into one object. Sit on it. Right-click to edit the object, look at the position coordinates, and type in a new Z value that places it up in the sky. It will pop up there immediately, you along with it.

Advantage: you start right there on your land on the ground, so it's simpler to make sure you don't accidentally cross over into your neighbor's plot.

- Rez a simple cube, sit on it and edit the Z position as before, and you and the cube will be up in the sky. With the cube as a "platform" of sorts, you'll be able to build the rest of your skybox right there in the sky until you're done.

Advantage: you're up in the sky away from people, if that's more to your liking while building.

Thanks that helps a lot. What is the maximum Z I can use? And what should be the minimum so people can't just fly into it.

The max is 768m (you can build over that but as soon as you try and move things you get problems), I tend to stick at about 700m to allow for upward growth. This will change when Havok 4 gets free.

The minimum really doesnt apply, everyone over a few weeks old has flight assist and can fly higher than you can build, put it somewhere that looks empty, I like about 250m just above the clouds (more scenic).

768 M is the current limit, and it should increase to 1024 M with Havok 4.

Generally avoid building in the particle cloud layer, between 200 and 250 M. the clouds interpenetrate your build, cause issues with clicking on things, and cause lag.

250 and higher works fine. But as the other poster replied, anyone can go to the skybox height easily with a free filight assist, so going up mostly just gets you away from casual explorers. The truly annoying and intrusive types will still bug you in your skybox, unless you use some sort of security orb.

Also gets you away from most land clutter like adfarms, and allows a more natural look with sculpted grounds (If you put sculpted terrain on non-sculpted it usually doesn't match in colour and lighting).

note that anything under 512 will (eventually) show up on the sim map, so I reccomend 600 to reduce clutter, especially if it's big

(now if only I could get skymall owners to notice that... makes seeing sim borders on the map harder and masks the terrain on the ground from the map =/ )

Actually, I believe the 'magic number' there is 400M. Lower than 400 gets mapped on the main map, 400 and higher doesn't.

Unfortunately the prims all show on the mini map, regardless of altitude, which makes it really hard to see anything in a build that has a lot of stuff in the sky.