Tools for painting skyboxes?

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  EarthQuake mod

  Nov 2019

  Take a sphere primitive, invert it, and then load it into a 3D painting app (like Substance painter). Paint your skybox on that, and then bake it onto a cube with a T-style skybox layout like you see above.
  
  The 3D painting app will account for any distortion.

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  Eric Chadwick admin

  Nov 2019

  Plus some more resources here if you want dynamic skies
  
  http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Skies
  

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  poopipe grand marshal polycounter

  Nov 2019

  EQs technique is probably the easiest way of hand painting directly to a cube map.
  
  Susbtance designer has panorama generation tools  that'll help with HDR generation and will distort images for you.
  
  And I can't recommend lys highly enough for converting between layouts and generating the convolved maps you'll need for shading things. 

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  Blaizer polycounter

  Nov 2019

  Here's an example of what EQ said using Blender:
  
  https://youtu.be/S8gsDJs8xWA
  
  I used to generate very cool skyboxes for my Quake 2/3 and Half Life maps using Terragen and Vue. You always can generate a good spherical sky from a scene to make more beliveable the perspective, and later, convert it to a skybox.
  
  
  
  
  

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  armagon polycounter lvl 14

  Nov 2019

  Wow, that video helps a lot and helped me visualize his advice. Thanks a lot, guys! I'll try to make that setup. It looks exactly what I need.
  

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