Why won't sky appear?

[foto-z]

I'm a relative beginner in Maya and am trying to use the sky environment shader. If I open the Hypershade panel, and then click on the shader and it appears in the work area.

If I render at this stage, there is no sky. What step(s) have I missed.

Grateful for any assistance :)

[Redmer]

i think you still ned to set the sky in the scene

[foto-z]

how do I do that?

[NeoStrider]

well in order to use a shader, you've got to have something that's considered 'renderable' to put it on. if you want a sky, use a plane or a really really large sphere (most people like to cut them in half and just use the top) and apply your shader to that.

[foto-z]

Thanks, I thought that the object which appeared was the sphere but it was only some sort of shader attribute. Working now :)