High Quality Skyboxes


(Avoc) #201

Sometimes even ugly skyboxes take forever to render :smiley:

Its a pretty clouded night sky, it has a darkblue tint (but you can manually edit it later yourself if you want it to be much darker), has a great amount of stars, but most of them can only be seen if you zoom in with binoculars (pretty cool if I must say so myself). The moon is pretty high up in the sky, partly covered by the clouds.


(shagileo) #202

Cleaning my binocs already :cool:

Would be cool if the stars would twinkle


(Avoc) #203

I unfortunately cannot make animate the sky :smiley:
But the stars do have a static twinkle effect.


(Pegazus) #204

Got a sneak preview? :wink:


(Avoc) #205


Sure, thats the up side. That side will be rendered last, because it will take the longest time. Excuse the .jpg compression.


(Pegazus) #206

It’s looking great so far, keep up the good work!
:riflenade:


(stealth6) #207

How do you make the image? In the OP you mention the program to render it, buthow do you get the raw image?


(Avoc) #208

Right-click and save picture as? :smiley:

Just need to render the up side


(shagileo) #209

[quote=Avoc;237881]Right-click and save picture as? :smiley:

Just need to render the up side[/quote]

Ah, so you basically base the skybox on an already existing picture from a sky… or ?


(Avoc) #210

I wish :smiley:

You basically set cloud layers, atmosphere layers, sun options, lighting options, adjust camera settings, etc.
To save the rendered picture, I right-click and save target as :stuck_out_tongue:


(stealth6) #211

ooooh, I thought you were really making the images in photoshop and then putting them together with this vue 7 program.


(Avoc) #212

I should maybe try to make a skybox 100% in hand :smiley:

Rendered the up side for 15 hours and not even 50% finished yet


(shagileo) #213

[quote=Avoc;238056]I should maybe try to make a skybox 100% in hand :smiley:

Rendered the up side for 15 hours and not even 50% finished yet[/quote]

I pity your PC :tongue:

But the results are worth it


(Pegazus) #214

[QUOTE=Avoc;238056]I should maybe try to make a skybox 100% in hand :smiley:

Rendered the up side for 15 hours and not even 50% finished yet[/QUOTE]

Oopsie, I promise you it will be worth it :o


(Avoc) #215

Done - I hope you like it. I’ve saved it as .tga instead of .jpg

Download link is on the first page. The shader I made has a pretty bright light, but I guess most people know how to modify the shader anyway ;D


(Cambodunum) #216

wheee … nicely done :slight_smile:


(shagileo) #217

He did it again - Amazing work !
I bet you feel real humble when staring at that moon ingame :o


(Pegazus) #218

Looks awesome from photo, but the download link in OP post gives me overcast sky instead. :o


(UJERebel) #219

The storms and the werewolves are coming… AAARRRGGG

Very nice done!! nice feeling!!


(Avoc) #220

Whoops :smiley:
Fixed