pitch black skybox...

[Frosty1433]

I'm trying to make a pitch black skybox to give it the effect that the map is floating in the middle of no where... I found a texture called "black" and try using that, but it seems to be causing some leak... And I do not want a 2D skybox, because there will be a teleport to the skybox, which only allows knifes in... That will be cool for other players on the normal map to watch 2 big giants battle it out with knifes.

 

[Unarmed]

To make a map you must first make the sky yourself, you cant just choose a textue that catches your fancy. So you need 6 (front, back, left, right, up, down) black textures named accordingly. Type sky in the texture browser and then you should see what I mean.

Once that is done you can use the normal toolsskybox texture and then sppecify your sky as the sky for the map and voila!

 

[63]

I'd actually just use the 'black' texture and brush in a high ceiling. It doesn't matter that the skybox is "2D" because that specific texture doesn't show depth.

 

[Unarmed]

That works for you but since he wants the big 3D skybox "to watch 2 big giants battle it out with knifes" the toolsskybox texture needs to be used because otherwise ther will be no giants in the sky