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Setting a sky
by OtZman (view all articles)
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And a list of available ones


This tutorial will describe how to set a sky different than the default one. At the end of the tutorial there is also a list of all the available skies as well as a link to a picture of them for reference.

1. Click on "Map" at the top left part of the screen, then click "Map Properties..." at the bottom of the menu that appears.



2. In the box that appears, choose the third option in the menu to the left, "SkyBox Texture Name". Then enter the name of the desired skybox texture in the field.



3. Click "Apply".

These skies are available:

sky_wasteland02 - This is the default sky

sky_borealis01

sky_day01_01
sky_day01_04
sky_day01_05
sky_day01_06
sky_day01_07
sky_day01_08
sky_day01_09

sky_day02_01
sky_day02_02
sky_day02_03
sky_day02_04
sky_day02_05
sky_day02_06
sky_day02_07
sky_day02_09
sky_day02_10

sky_day03_01
sky_day03_02
sky_day03_03
sky_day03_04
sky_day03_05
sky_day03_06


Here is a picture of them for reference: Linky
(You can also type in skybox in the filter of the texture browser and increase the size at which the pictures are shown to 512x512 and have a look at them this way)


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0 starsPosted by FIDDLER on Mon Jun 25th 2007 at 9:19am

I'm going to attempt to create a test map where the sky changes from day to dusk. Wish me luck.
0 starsPosted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Dec 22nd 2005 at 4:04am

This is very well done. I use this tutorial often. Thanks OtZman!
0 starsPosted by tovlakas on Mon Nov 28th 2005 at 12:01am

Perhaps what you could do is group the skies by their category (IE: day1, day2, etc.) and then make seperate images for each category. Then you could post a link to each category. This would allow you to create less than 8 images, but at least cut down on the huge single image.
0 starsPosted by Captain P on Wed Oct 26th 2005 at 8:49pm

I expected the yellow sky names to be links, so perhaps that's a flaw in this tutorial now, but the rest is ok, easy to follow and handy for those that don't like to type 'skybox' in their texture browser. No, it's also handy to compare skies. Nice tutorial. smiley
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Posted by OtZman on Wed Oct 26th 2005 at 5:42pm

Underdog, thanks for the suggestion, I've now linked to the reference picture instead of having it in the tutorial itself.

Answeres to your other two points:
1) Actually, it's one big 800 by 14515 px picture containing all the skies. Did it this way simply because I couldn't upload more than 8 images. That's why it's almost 1 mb in file size. smiley

2) Fixed a link instead as you suggested at first. smiley
0 starsPosted by Underdog on Wed Oct 26th 2005 at 2:04pm

I can see that an amazing amount of effort went into this. I only wish you had made it 56k friendly. Image links. Use links.

Make this page 56k friendly and I will score it accordingly.

[edit] I adjusted my score. 980k is excessive but considering the amount of screens I suppose its ok.

2 things however.
1) You did something wrong creating the screens. Each are 93k and blurry. I have seen 50k shots that were much,much more clarity. I suggest you look into why.
2) would asking for thumbs instead be asking to much?
[edit 2] score adjusted accordingly.
0 starsPosted by Imbrifer on Wed Oct 26th 2005 at 12:45am

Very clear, very simple, very direct. Like others have said, thanks for posting the screenshots of the skies as well.
0 starsPosted by Dark|Killer on Tue Oct 25th 2005 at 10:48am

Well done smiley
0 starsPosted by habboi on Tue Oct 25th 2005 at 10:41am

0 starsPosted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue Oct 25th 2005 at 12:59am

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