Working with Skyboxes

armagon · Apr 2017

I've just read this amazing interview with Ryan Watkins about his work with the Doom environment: http://www.quadspinner.com/Blog/Doom

And i ended up being super curious about the matte-painting techniques he said he used on Halo. Are there any specific tools for painting Skyboxes? Is that a good technique or do you guys prefer rendering equirectangular maps from your favorite 3D suite?

armagon · Jun 2017

Bump!

Obscura · Jun 2017

I'd build the bases of my scene in a game engine or 3d package, bake that as a cubemap or equirectangular one. and paint over that right on the mesh probably. Animated layers (panning, texture changing) can also look cool. What would you like to know specifically?

armagon · Jun 2017

Would you paint on the mesh using 3D Coat or something like that? Would you use those royalty-free HDRI as a base?

Obscura · Jun 2017

I would use a 3d scene as a base, bake it down, and then yes, painting in something like 3d coat.

armagon · Jul 2017

Thanks a lot for the help. I never thought about painting directly on the mesh. Do you guys know any cloud brushes or sky-specific brushes that could help? Or you do all of that from scratch?

Working with Skyboxes

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