Quality skybox textures?

[mustardseed]

Does anyone know of a resource that sells skybox textures pretty cheaply? Turbosquid was too much for me and I want a little more variety than what SkyMatter has. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[cliffski]

try istockphoto. they have tons of stuff, i spend a fortune there!

[vjvj]

For Meridian I used Terragen (http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/). You can generate pretty much any environment you want, then just write a quick script that will generate images for all six cube faces.

The images looked so good in fact that we had to have an artist dumb them down by hand. Without doing this, the skybox art looked WAY better than the actual art for the game :)

Unfortunately, it appears the price of the license has gone up to $99 US. Still quite a deal though considering the power of the tool.