Objects in the sky?

(Aikon) #1

Hi guys,

I was wondering…I’m trying to make something like a gigantic tower, which would be in the disance when you look up, but since it’s so gigantic, it needs to seem like it is actually very very far, and that it seems like that, even when you come closer to it, or look with your binocs at it, etc. As if you would be looking at a (working) skybox.

After hammering :bash: the searchbutton for a while, I came up with nothing…

This is the tower:

And this is the place where it’s supposed to come in…I marked the area.

Some help would be kinda nice. Now if you’d excuse me, I’m gonna :banghead: some more…the dent in my skull doesn’t seem like it’s big enough yet :slight_smile: .

(Ifurita) #2

I think you’re looking for props_skyportal

http://www.nibsworld.com/rtcw/tutorial_skybox.shtml

(Aikon) #3

Thanks Iffy, but I still have a few Q’s which I’m wonderin’ bout…when I put my stuff in that skybox outside of the map, do I need to resize it, and make a small outside-of-the-map-skybox or can I leave it the same way, and make a big outside-of-the-map-skybox? Also, does the props_skyportal need to be targetted to the normal map? And last, does the props_skyportal take out a lot of fps?