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 Re: Enviroment Map
Posted by Haze on Mon Jan 23rd at 3:20pm 2006

Hey, I searched for installing enviroment maps but I could not find anything.

I have the image files but I do not know where to put them.





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 Re: Enviroment Map
Posted by ReNo on Mon Jan 23rd at 3:27pm 2006

Should be the "materialsskybox" folder of the game you are trying to install it to I think. By having the "image files" though, do you just mean BMPs or TGAs or something? If so, you need to convert them into materials first. The later part of this tutorial should help...

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Creating_a_2D_skybox_with_Terragen




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 Re: Enviroment Map
Posted by Haze on Mon Jan 23rd at 3:57pm 2006

It is a 3D skybox, up, left, right, down, forward and back not a 2D one.



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Jan 23rd at 8:01pm 2006

When people refer to a 2D skybox, they simply mean one that is made up of several 2D pictures (such as bitmaps, TGAs, JPGs, or VTFs). A 3D skybox, in regards to the source engine, is made up of 3D models or brushwork built in hammer. Any maps with outdoor areas in the source engine will have at least a 2D skybox, and an optional 3D skybox as well.




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Posted by Haze on Tue Jan 24th at 10:09pm 2006

Head over to your new VTFs. They'll be in ...materials/skybox for whichever game you're editing. Now create six VMTs with the same names as the VTFs using this format:

How do I make the VMTs? I did everything up until then.





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Posted by ReNo on Tue Jan 24th at 10:23pm 2006

Just make a text file and change the .txt extension to .vmt. Type what it tells you into them <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Haze on Tue Jan 24th at 10:46pm 2006

Okay I have done that, it says just to load up Hammer and enter the name of the enviroment in the skybox field on map properties, I did that but it did not show up.






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