Simple Skybox
Simple Skybox material fills empty space in the camera view with a Cubemap texture.
This example uses Simple Skybox to fill the camera view with a custom equirectangular cubemap.
Create Simple Skybox
![add simple skybox](http://lf16-tiktok-common.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tiktok-web-common-tx/effect/learn/assets/images/add_simple_skybox-9fb5db506b9c6c2164941288e88bc424.png)
You can add a Simple Skybox material by clicking the Add button [+] > Material > Simple Skybox in the Assets panel.
Apply Simple Skybox to Cube Mesh
To correctly use the Simple Skybox material, you will need a Cube mesh in the scene.
Try using a cube instead of other meshes for the Skybox setup since a cube mesh has minimal vertexes and will impact the performance the least.
For this example, add a built-in Cube Mesh and apply the Simple Skybox material to the cube’s Mesh Renderer.
![cube properties](http://lf16-tiktok-common.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tiktok-web-common-tx/effect/learn/assets/images/cube_properties-1de076fd549c5ea59a6d60ba1a2265ad.png)
Since the Skybox will need to cover the whole camera view, attach the Cube under the Camera and set its Position to 0, 0, 0 in the Cube’s Inspector panel.
Simple Skybox Properties
Skybox Texture: The Cubemap type texture that will be applied to the Skybox color. Apply tint color on the Skybox.
You’ll need to import Cubemap texture by clicking the Add button [+] > Import > Cubemap.
![simple skybox properties](http://lf16-tiktok-common.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tiktok-web-common-tx/effect/learn/assets/images/simple_skybox_properties-225266082fb9e11108e6528797629fed.png)
- Color: Set up the material’s Albedo color by the hexadecimal color code or by picking a color from the color wheel.
- Exposure: The parameter that controls the brightness of the Skybox material.
- Default: 1
- Range: (0-8)
- Rotation: Change the rotation of the Skybox.
- Default: 0
- Range: (0-8)
Render State 0
![render state](http://lf16-tiktok-common.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tiktok-web-common-tx/effect/learn/assets/images/render_state-2e67bfbb10ef40a9d65f3b46a625aee3.png)
Blend Mode
- Normal: Edits or paints each pixel to make it the result color.
![blend mode normal](http://lf16-tiktok-common.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tiktok-web-common-tx/effect/learn/assets/images/blend_mode_normal-7e820560caa5d74b7d7cde00074a8d92.png)
- Transparent: Edits or paints each pixel to make it the resulting color and opens the alpha channel.
![blend mode transparent](http://lf16-tiktok-common.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tiktok-web-common-tx/effect/learn/assets/images/blend_mode_transparent-3a85968e710d85a76f2f13940eb9a438.png)