Camera backgrounds

Make a sky texture from an available image

Select the camera, go into shading

You can also color a gradient

You could also mix the image and the gradient

Make a tiled image ground texture

This uses an image that comes with Max

The tiling is specified in the size settings (6.00) ...

Now make the cube some texture

Here I used a second metal and use a blend mode darken to combine them

 

 

this is lighten