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Gaming => Urban Terror => Map & Model Tutorials => Topic started by: SnKTank on July 18, 2010, 03:28:44 AM

Title: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: SnKTank on July 18, 2010, 03:28:44 AM

A brief tutorial on making a custom skybox for urban terror using terragen classic.
Follow this tutorial and you will be able to make realistic skyboxes in no time!

Be sure to read the EDITS for important information regarding front and back image naming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8F1Xa4KFL4#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8F1Xa4KFL4#ws)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I65UK51EO88#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I65UK51EO88#ws)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVpMeS7UOLs#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVpMeS7UOLs#ws)

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: Biohazard on July 18, 2010, 08:15:15 AM

Thank you Tank, great job.

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: SnKQuaKe on July 18, 2010, 10:24:00 AM

Thanks

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: SnKQuaKe on July 18, 2010, 11:39:57 AM

I love the fixes, I laughed pretty good at the end. Excellent job, I learned alot. :)

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: Dougy on July 18, 2010, 12:30:17 PM

Dont supposed you can upload ur skybox lol?

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: SnKTank on July 18, 2010, 01:30:04 PM

Good call dougy! I want people to know that my methods do work, so here is the sky I made in that tutorial.

letme know if you have any problems getting it to work, and remember, add the mysky entry to the shaderlist.txt!


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Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: SnKQuaKe on July 18, 2010, 01:58:52 PM

So when we pack a pk3 with our custom skybox, Do we add our shaderlist?

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: Pyrite[1up] on July 18, 2010, 02:59:07 PM

Did you happen to use Jing to make those videos, or some other program (Camtasia, etc)?

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: SnKQuaKe on July 18, 2010, 03:38:51 PM

He told me camtasia

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: SnKTank on July 18, 2010, 03:44:36 PM

Quote from: SNKQuaKe[1up] on July 18, 2010, 01:58:52 PM

So when we pack a pk3 with our custom skybox, Do we add our shaderlist?

No, that is not necessary. Shaderlist.txt is just used by GTK Radiant to find where the shaders are, so it can draw a white box around them and use them in the compile process.

Yes I used Camtasia. Thanks to lurker for recommending it, and btjunkie.com for there wonderful selection of software  >:D

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: Pyrite[1up] on July 18, 2010, 04:03:31 PM

I recommend Jing too, it's Free. Camtasia costs about $300, but is also more feature-full. Jing has a cool one button click to record and upload to their server and copies the URL to your clipboard feature I like.

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: Casper on July 18, 2010, 07:46:09 PM

Nice job :D
what mistake did u make when you could tell where the edges were? I wanna avoid doing that haha

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: SnKTank on July 20, 2010, 07:59:28 PM

I was thinking about the skybox from the inside, which would go from clockwise 0=right, 90= back, 180 =left 270=front
However, skyboxes are thought of from the outside but rendered from the inside which switches the front and back around.

Run-on sentences oh no!

Title: Re: SnKTanK's Skybox Tutorial Parts 1-3
Post by: Casper on July 20, 2010, 08:57:34 PM

Quote from: SnKTank[1up] on July 20, 2010, 07:59:28 PM

I was thinking about the skybox from the inside, which would go from clockwise 0=right, 90= back, 180 =left 270=front
However, skyboxes are thought of from the outside but rendered from the inside which switches the front and back around.

Run-on sentences oh no!

oh I see