GENTLEMEN. Quick question on Skyboxes, do answer if you can

odium

Just trying to spiffy up my skyboxes and I noticed that I'm still making them like I did 10 years ago, either a single envMap cube, or a hemisphere with bad mapping on the very top, and to be quite honest I'm just not gonna stand for it.

So, while I sit down... Whats the general though behind the best way to make them these days? Keep in mind I mean just the sky, not the far terrain in the sky, and that I will be looking for moving effects, clouds etc.

Thanks awfully! Pip pip!

Neox

usually its a mix of a cylindrical projection for everything on the horizon and a planar projection for the top

just get ue4 and check out their domes i would say

Clos3d

I thought it was a simple cube with 1 smoothing group.....

Eric Chadwick

Also it helps to check out timelapse videos of various games, to figure out what was done.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIL31lOk8ms[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQB4wkmKOv8[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pROWml_4sYQ[/ame]

xvampire

just uv2 ( top down relaxed UV ) baked from the first .(cylindrical projection). and clean up the seam


you can use both uv to create cloud fly mask variation .. in material editor wink wink



keep the original uv for other variation


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