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Posted by Leperous on Wed Dec 22nd at 11:43am 2004


This is a discussion topic for the article "3D Skybox" by Leperous which can be found here

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Making distant scenery






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Posted by Leperous on Sun Mar 20th at 12:24pm 2005

Tutorial has been rewritten.



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Posted by Shifty on Thu Apr 7th at 7:33pm 2005

FREAKING AWESOME! I did not get skyboxes right until I read this! You rock! 10/10!!!



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Posted by TheBelfig on Mon Apr 25th at 3:47am 2005

Good job. This will really help me with my map development.



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Posted by defect on Wed Jun 8th at 3:14am 2005

This was a big help, but for some reason it didn't work on the first compile. I changed nothing, compiled again, and then it worked.
*shrug*



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Posted by Flexer on Thu Jun 9th at 9:48am 2005

But what about the map itself ? Do i must to put my map(not skybox) in box with sky texture like in HL1 ?



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Posted by Leperous on Thu Jun 9th at 2:17pm 2005

You have to surround it with sky texure still, yes (though a box isn't the best way to do it). We don't actually do anything different to the main map- all you need to do is make this miniature landscape in a box somewhere outside your level, and put in a sky_camera entity.



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Posted by rival on Wed Aug 3rd at 6:41pm 2005

I knew the basics before but there were a couple stuff in there that i didnt know. now i can stop asking myself why my 3d skybox looks like crap.
well written and clear as well.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Mon Dec 12th at 5:18pm 2005

This tutorial helped me immensely during my first attempts at a 3D skybox. Very clear and simple.

However, is it just me or is this paragraph redundant?

"Move your mini-scenery to somewhere outside your map, and enclose it in a skybox- you can just make a cube around it with the tools/toolsskybox texture and hollow it out. Delete the original reference geometry and the original sky_camera entity, and edit the new one, setting the scale to be 16 (or whatever scaling you just used to transform the reference geometry)."

Hasn't that information already been covered in the previous paragraph?



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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Apr 11th at 7:55pm 2006

Never rated it



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Posted by Kenny on Sat Jun 3rd at 11:42pm 2006

Very helpful, and repetition can, and often is good. You can miss something when you read the first time, and sometimes restating it will help someone if they understand it not the first time. Good job!



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Posted by Sensei on Sat Jan 6th at 10:56am 2007

I coudlnt change the texture size after I had rescaled the brushes. I typed the new texture size in and hit 'apply' but it didnt do anything.



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Posted by RedBlade2021 on Sun Jan 27th at 11:07pm 2008

Meh, i cant do skys, everytime i do, anything infront of it goes invisible.



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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Mar 17th at 7:50pm 2008

This tut always helped me a lot. Well done.




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