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I made a nice little sunset skybox for anyone who wants to use it. If you do use it, please give credit where it's due

Screenshot:


Download (Rapidshare link):
SM_SKY1.zip (1.91 MB)

I would have just saved it for use in a level, but I never finish the levels that I start

B-E-A-utiful.

Makes me want to put on a pot of coffee.

AWESOME

Nice. Here's a hint: For large true color graphics it is normally best to store them as JPGs instead of PNGs. The loss of quality is normally not really noticable but they get significantly smaller that way.

Graf Zahl wrote:Here's a hint: For large true color graphics it is normally best to store them as JPGs instead of PNGs. The loss of quality is normally not really noticable but they get significantly smaller that way.

Noted. I forgot about DevIL.


In other news, I've made a quick little skybox that's just really foggy. It also cooperates decently when using line_horizon.

Screenshots:



Download (Rapidshare link):
SM_SKY2.zip (340KB)

EDIT: Hmm, seems as though it's not a bad replacement for the E1 sky either...

the sunset one hurts my eyes like the many times the sun reflected off a glass table >_<

Shinjanji wrote:(340KB)

Isn't it amazing how much Jpeg can save?

Actaully, I really didn't want to use a compressed JPG... I don't like to have my end results corrupted (no matter how small the corruption) by limitations of a format... Shame though, because at the highest quality setting, the JPG files are still somewhat large. That, and I've heard that it compressed JPEG files go to shit when mipmaps are generated. However, a skybox wouldn't have this problem...


Of course, all these filesize issues wouldn't be quite so bad if we were able to keep them in a compressed archive of some sort. (since WAD files don't compress)

The foggy skybox is very pretty Make some screenshots of Darkmere with it

Shinjanji wrote: Of course, all these filesize issues wouldn't be quite so bad if we were able to keep them in a compressed archive of some sort. (since WAD files don't compress)

Actually, they still would. Both PNG and JPG are already compressed as much as possible. Using a compressed container format wouldn't help much with such formats. But with a 512x512 picture the JPEG artifacts shouldn't be an issue. Many games store their entire textures with a few exceptions as JPEGs and get away with it.

I'd like to see more "unreal and abstract" skybox pictures instead of all these standard pictures

Terragen is such a neat tool to create them and that's why you see so many of them.

For anybody who is good at making skyboxes:



Can somebody put together a similar-looking skybox? (Those interested: I put this picture together with Terragen and Photoshop, with some google-image-searched pictures of the Aurora Borealis.)

These skies, especially the foggy one, are very nice indeed. Now, make some city scapes and I'll be really happy. (I'm guessing a program called Terragen makes terrain rather than buildings though.)