I've used skylines of New York for IBL in the past with no problem. In this case, I just quickly made a fake skyline because this is future NYC. But the skyline is so magnified that it's pixelated. I tried everything. Scale seems to be ignored, both in the Visual tab, and in the sky settings tab. I've even sized down the image to no avail. I think I'm going to just have to give up and stick some skyscraper objects outside the window.

To me it looks like DOF enabled. Or blur enabled for sky.

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I had a look again and I assume I know what you're doing wrong: you're setting the scale in/for IBL, and not for sky. For iBL is in Visual tab under IBL Transform section, while for Sky is in Modify tab / Sky section - and this is the one which is what we see, while IBL is for lighting only.


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the 2nd image is not a Equirectangular image, so it wont map to a sphere.
you could use it on a plane instead and set it back in 3d space


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This one was usable, but I never noticed until now how magnified it is.