Custom Skyboxes.

[IG-64]

I'm making a map, and have custom skybox textures. I dont know how to add these to my map. Ive read richdiesal's tutorial on skyboxes, but it says nothing about custom skybox textures.

 

Thanks.

[IG-64]

ok, I got all the way up to this: You get the 6 skybox textures, you put them in your texture folder, you make a shader, you put it into your shader folder, you put it all into a pk3 with your map and it should be in radiant. Its not there.

[GothiX]

And you add the shader to shaderlist.txt. If you have any problems with the shader, catch me on MSN, gothicx3@hotmail.com.

[EvilJedi]

Can you make pictures you got off the internet sky shaders somehow? I sure would like to know how to do this... I have a sweet sunset picture.

[IG-64]

well, I added it to the shaderlist and nothing happend so I redid the shader and it worked

[EMF Universe]

EvilJedi, yes you can...I did.

 

You need to download skypaint at skypaint.com. Is is specifically used to distort ordinary images into a perspective-skybox view.

 

You simply load the picture and the program will create the view. You press "paint" and you'll get a image in MS Paint of that specific view, distorted.

[EvilJedi]

except my pictures are all .jpg files and won't work, what do they need to be?

[EMF Universe]

I'm not sure what you mean, you can of course convert all image tipes to the tipe you want it with an ordinary imaging program.

[EvilJedi]

wut files do they need to be? .jpg files don't work so....

[SeriousMite]

Anybody know of a good skybox tutorial?

[Mercenary]

For Terragen there's an official user's guide on the site that explains things very well

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

 

skybox tutorial

http://www.map-review.com/index.php?page=tutorial_view&id=2

 

tutorial on how to properly apply the sky in Radiant

http://www.sentient-studios.com/main/

you have to register to get access and hurry before the site is closed down.

[SeriousMite]

Cool, thanks.