For more information about this texture, see Env Sphere.

To use the Sphere’s texture placement object

1. The Sphere environment texture provides a texture placement object to adjust the texture on the surface. Use Maya’s transform tools to scale, move, or rotate the texture placement object.

   

You can also interactively place the texture, or fit it to the object. Select either Interactive Placement, which provides you with a special manipulator, or Fit to group bbox from the Sphere’s place3dTexture attributes.