question about skyboxes

[TCfromBN]

when making a skybox and i click fit when i put the skybox texture on it never fits correctly and i can never line it up.. anyone have an idea whats goin on?

 

[Norgus]

you should be using the texture tools/toolskybox for any skybox textures. In hamer it will show as lots of blue squares with the word skybox, but in game it should look like sky.

 

[DrDevin]

Skyboxes are premade not textured. The easiest/simplest way to use a skybox is to make a large brush surrounding your map and make it hollow. Then go into your map properties box and type in the name of the skybox you want to use.

 

[Dario D.]

Dont forget to add the blue Skybox tex.

In texture browser type in "toolsskybox" and use that tex.

In Source, the skybox is setup only as a property in Map Properties. You dont actually make a physical skybox anywhere, unless it's a 3d skybox, at which time u setup meshes around a sky_camera entity, and still not setup an actual sky.

To assign a skybox, go to Map (which is a menu at the top of Hammer)/Map Properties>Skybox Texture Name

I dont remember the actual skybox names that u need to put in there. I was referring to a tut list of skybox names on interlopers.net, but that site is down today for some reason. Looks like they ran out of bandwidth and got suspended from their webhost.