3ds max comes with mental ray (or the other way around, depends how you're thinking of it, you buy 3ds, you get mental ray already plugged in). To do "that sky thing", add a Daylight system, set the sun & light types to MR Sun, and it will prompt you to add a physical sky map to the environment. All done.
Even Shinier Picture!
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