Multiple Skyboxes

I was wondering if it is possible to have multiple skyboxes in a single
DM map, so that you can cycle through them in an organised manner. I
was just wondering because you use a sky camera entity to make the sky
appear in the levels sky area's, so would it be possible to turn them
on and off, there by switching the sky.

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Ham and Jam Contributor
http://www.hamandjam.org

'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

No, already tried that, and it didn't work out very well. The
sky_camera needs to be inside a cube with the toolskybox
texture. Perhaps if you made a second cube inside the
skybox cube, with the sky you wanted...

Well anyway, hope I gave you an idea at least Good Luck!

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Dark_Kilauea
DVS Administration
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Yeah, I'm not so much interested in changing the actual sky, more having different scenes within the sky box.

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Ham and Jam Contributor
http://www.hamandjam.org

'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

Wall_toggles and various rendering changes perhaps? Maybe if you have
the same single 3d skybox, but then change what actually appears inside
it... not sure how it would work though.

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My site

You can use entities as normal in your skybox (some won't work, but none that you should need) so Loco's suggestion will work (func_wall_toggle, or the updated equivalent if there is one?). But note that since you can't tie displacement surfaces to entities, you're going to have problems if you want to include them in your scenes, and there's nothing you can do about that except hide them behind something.

So it's impossible to have a displacement move like an elevator or door
then. I wonder how they got the displacements to rise up like they did
in that technology video they released before HL2 came out. I'll have
to figure something out. Thanks for the feedback, I kinda figured on
doing it that way Loco / Lep, just wanted some confirmation on it :smile: .

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Ham and Jam Contributor
http://www.hamandjam.org

'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

Cursed double post.

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Ham and Jam Contributor
http://www.hamandjam.org

'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

You can use env_terrainmorph to raise (or lower) points in a
displacement mesh, though there are some limitations. (It can't be a
mesh that the player can walk on, for instance, since the clipping is
not changed with the appearance.)

There seems to be no way to move a displacement wholesale, since you can't tie one to any entity.

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VMEX, Pakrat & Entspy

You could keep the displacement still and move everything else. :biggrin: