Skydome No Shadow

[Booman]

I created my own skydome to use in conceptual presentations landscaping.
Its simply a massive half-dome with a sky projected across it.
The main problem I have, is that when I turn shadows on or use sun settings, it casts a shadow across my whole landscape.
I have done some research and the only suggestions were to make it transparent, but if I do that, you won't see the pretty sky.
I have also tried telling the group/component to NOT cast shadows, but still have the same problem because it blocks the sunlight.
So does anyone know of a plugin or setting that will allow a skydome but somehow it ignores the sun or does not cast shadows?

[Dave R]

Make the outside faces of the dome transparent by painting a transparent material on it. The inside surface will have your sky painted on it.

Here's a quick example with a model I am working on at the moment. I don't have a sky so I used stone for the inside.

[Booman]

ooh, interesting idea. So create a transparent PNG, make it a material and apply it to the outside of the dome?
Then leave my sky material on the inside?
I will definitely try that!
thank you

[Box]

You don't need to make a transparent PNG, just paint it with anything and edit that materials transparency.

[Booman]

oh, so use the slider on the material and make it 0%
got it

[Dave R]

For my example I just applied the gray translucent material. I left it so you could that there was something there but you could certainly slide it all the way to transparent.

[boofredlay]

Or you can select the sky dome, go to Entity Info and uncheck "Cast Shadows".

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[Booman]

I tried that too, but it still seemed to block the sun and NOT cast a shadow.
I'll try the transparent material idea when I get to work today.