How to make a 3d-SKYbox Texture

[1Luc1]

How can i make this?

i hope you know what i mean?

1Luc1

 

[LXS]

There's a nice tutorial that comes with hammer - look in Help.

 

[1Luc1]

SORRY i mean Skybox-Texture
NO 3d
only the texture.

1Luc1

 

[Hazar]

I don't think you can right now.

 

[StardogChampion]

Not sure what you mean, but you could try modelling a sphere, then invert the polys, then apply the texture for your sky to the sphere. Then you'd place the sphere in the 3d skybox covering the little purple node thinger.

 

[Bluestrike]

Just like the other sky textures I guess, just a textureset with the fight naming (skynamelt skynamedn skynameup etc) in vtf format and maybe with a special parameter in the vmt file.

Try to find out where Valve stored theirs and check those files out

 

[Raeven0]

I looked at Valve's VMTs, and it seems pretty much exactly the same as a normal texture, with these exceptions:

- the shader is "UnlitGeneric" as opposed to "LightmappedGeneric" (probably prevents the sky textures from being darkened)
- Valve used "$nofog" "1" and ignorez 1 (yes, without quotes); dunno why they'd do that...
- The naming convention is as Bluestrike pointed out: up, dn, lf, rt, ft, bk

Also, the VTEX documentation says that there's a $skybox parameter that goes in the texture's TXT file that forces the texture to be compiled as a skybox texture, but I haven't tried any of this, so I make no promises

 

[1Luc1]

thanks, greate help

1Luc1

 

[1Luc1]

i tried to make some vtf files with vtex but it doesn't work.

@Raeven0
can you give me the link to the VTEX documentation. Thakns.

 

[Raeven0]

i tried to make some vtf files with vtex but it doesn't work.

@Raeven0
can you give me the link to the VTEX documentation. Thakns.

The documentation is here, but I don't like Valve's generally insufficient "documentation," () so I have a tutorial here, and there's a vtex GUI here.