Night sky with moon skybox

[Moderator]

16:00, 2nd Jul 2010
DonDustin: looks really nice, but as Debode said: it would be even better as a sphere

 

[Deolrin]

Would have been better if it was a sky sphere. But yeah, it's awesome.

 

[Misha]

lookin sweet, but.. wtf is a skybox? O__o

 

[Avex]

lookin sweet, but.. wtf is a skybox? O__o

Skyboxes were used back in older games (Lets take one of my favorite games: Star Wars: Jedi Knight 3 Jedi Academy into example).

You would have the objects ingame, your map, bla bla bla, and if you went out into the edge of the map, you would see a pretty low quality (or high quality, depends on the game) background image, and the model would consist of a box, with the background textures. They however would tend to make it impossible to see the textures connect at the edges of the box, else it would look weird.

WarCraft 3 uses Skyboxes, thats why if you do View Ingame Settings, and zoom out alot, you'll see the skybox.

World of WarCraft uses Skyspheres, which is the same thing, except its in a sphere, and looks more realistic.

 

[mamoeb]

half of stars are yellow, and this angle... thats not seems good!
or i did not understand something?

 

[ikillforeyou]

in the texture half of them are yellow, not much i can do about that..

*sigh* i'll start working on a sky sphere.

 

[AIagremm]

I like it, but as the other guys said...

But this is damn iseful! ^^

 

[mamoeb]

will wait for the final version.
there is rly no much interesting custom sky..skyboxes, yep. emm... so, +rep.

 

[Warimathas]

Holy crap! Finally a skybox! Awesome. You should make more of these

 

[ikillforeyou]

Hmm, anyone know how a skybox is rendered? as i made a cylindrical one and it's not working very well..

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

A little yellowish moon might be better, cause you know, the sun rays. Also there needs to be a lot fewer stars like only several should be seen, and different brightness/magnitude, like you may order them in some constellation but it's a thing never done before, so it;s nice to have when someone wants to use

 

[ikillforeyou]

i can't change the stars, i'm sorry, it's a set texture..

 

[topdog-160]

This is really cool. If you make a sphere somehow and avoid the awkward edges I would give 5/5.

 

[crimson fire]

I like it I like it!! but those...edges uh X.X but still very good

 

[Alfagar]

Yay! Moar skyboxes!

 

[mnib]

really cool and original idea

 

[RaidonGod]

I have there a little suggestion. maybe you could look at the underground dome model from Icecrown Glacier ... it is under cinematic doodads. I have experimented alot with this dome, changing the texture and so on. It is worth to take a look at it. ;D

 

[Misha]

.would it be possible to add animated texture to a skybox? so that we have moving clouds

 

[RaidonGod]

.would it be possible to add animated texture to a skybox? so that we have moving clouds

yes ... it is theoreticaly possible ... misha!!! you are a genius.

 

[Panda]

Neat.

 

[ikillforeyou]

.would it be possible to add animated texture to a skybox? so that we have moving clouds

that's all that's stopping me from making the next skybox, it's just not working, it doesn't show the cloud layer!

here it is, the alpha version of it

 

[Misha]

that's all that's stopping me from making the next skybox, it's just not working, it doesn't show the cloud layer!

here it is, the alpha version of it

why don't you just make a material that has the sky picture as first, and the moving clouds texture as an additive blend in front? I guess that it would show if it's all one material.. instead of spinning cloud thingamajig.. Oo

 

[Alfagar]

really cool and original idea

What's so original? Warcraft 3's sky is from skyboxes

 

[Deolrin]

He probably means that not a lot of people were creating sky boxes before.

 

[Misha]

why don't you just make a material that has the sky picture as first, and the moving clouds texture as an additive blend in front? I guess that it would show if it's all one material.. instead of spinning cloud thingamajig.. Oo

so.. does this idea work?

 

[BlackKnightTGS]

Very useful, 5/5

 

[Avex]

.would it be possible to add animated texture to a skybox? so that we have moving clouds

WarCraft 3 has it, so yes.


I'm sure you've all done this accidentally before, when you zoom out too much on the W3 Editor with Game Settings on you get this: (Using Dalaran Sky)

Which is the skybox.

 

[x3GlikE]

Woah nice dude

 

[Ardnived]

You should use a picture from the internet for the stars, these ones don't look great... :/

 

[yeohxin]

There are just a bit skybox around right?
Its a great work!

 

[ikillforeyou]

Lol making unit to shadow and around him space LOL!!! 0/5

What? That didn't make any sense.

 

[xDeathKnightx]

Lol making unit to shadow and around him space LOL!!! 0/5

No dude.

This is great, and also, i think more of these would be useful.
Great job. 5/5 +Rep

 

[frostloh]

Is it possible to view it in World Editor for terraining?

 

[Rogue Kessler]

I was really hoping someone had created a night skybox, since my RPG has some cutscenes at nighttime and the prepackaged skyboxes all look like daylight even at night. Thanks so much for making this!

 

[GywGod133]

half of stars are yellow, and this angle... thats not seems good!
or i did not understand something?

 

[Barade]

Really cool!