The skybox isn't animated! :(

[aeroripper]

I was playing CS:S and none of the skybox's were animated... i remember e-mailing gabe and he said they would be animated........ its in the official info thread

I wonder if this was just done in CS:S so not just another thing to lag or in the full game. I remember in the docks video it wasn't either...

I just think its important to have (or done similar to the way painkiller does, like in their new SP demo 3)

 

[zer0kewl]

they should have added it since many new games have it
why does't cs source have ?
will hl 2 get animated skyboxes
hmmmmm i want more eyecandy

 

[Naudian]

Whats with CSS anyway? Is it the finished version were playing? Or is it the beta with more maps? Someone said it was still beta er something...Me no knows

Anyway, if Gabe said skyboxes will be animated, maybe he plans to add it in the future. Hopefully same with HL2.

 

[Ames]

You could replace the skyboxes...

But that would be unlegal.

 

[zer0kewl]

You could replace the skyboxes...

But that would be unlegal.

yes. i think atleast
but still if it takes so much fps who cares
just alow it to turn on new skybox animation
or like r_oldskybox 1 etc

 

[ytinupmi]

they have the ability to do it, with their 3d skyboxes(which they use in cs:s) but i guess they didn't think it was appropriate to animate the sky in cs:s.

 

[ecchi]

Yes, as the previous poster said the 3d skyboxes can be animated. They can even utilize physics... perhaps a circus map could have flying trapeeze ragdolls! I don't think there's really anything to animate in the CS:S maps... the ambient effects like the dust clouds in Dust are just fine.

 

[aeroripper]

Yea i can understand that... but in Hl2 i think it would really add to the game... or something to have like the clouds moving really slowly

I always thought something like that was missing in far cry too... beautiful skybox but it seemed so static... like have a bolt of purple lightning or something once and a while if it was storming... THAT would be awesome!!!!!

 

[Teddy]

that's not entirely true.. some of the cables in the skybox of de_havana move a little. especailly if you set rope_shake "1"

 

[rrm]

maybe that feature was removed... who knows

 

[aeroripper]

that's not really in the skybox :-P

I mean just the sky in general... the clouds etc

Also i must add that the sun in CS:S looks AWESOME

Maybe we're not at the level of detail where we can have animated skybox's like that...

I saw a pic of the unreal3 engine outdoors with the clouds making shadows on the ground and stuff but to have it how pretty it is in hl2 but with clouds and lightning and stuff like that would really add to the immersion... might still be a few years off till computers can handle it all at good fps

 

[Fliko]

There is skyboxes in hl2, i am 95% sure of it,just look in the trailers, like the source trailer, just that, its kinda worthless for that if it takes up ALOT of fps

 

[Grand Architect]

The only thing to really animate in CS:S would be to have Blackhawks fly around now and then in maps like dust and dust2 other then that meh.

 

[aeroripper]

I really don't understand how it could eat up a ton of fps... like make a lightning bolt appear once and a while or something?

just something in the sky that moves once and a while to make it look more dynamic i doubt it could drop the fps that bad

 

[Half-alife]

that's not really in the skybox :-P

I mean just the sky in general... the clouds etc

Also i must add that the sun in CS:S looks AWESOME

Maybe we're not at the level of detail where we can have animated skybox's like that...

I saw a pic of the unreal3 engine outdoors with the clouds making shadows on the ground and stuff but to have it how pretty it is in hl2 but with clouds and lightning and stuff like that would really add to the immersion... might still be a few years off till computers can handle it all at good fps

S.T.A.L.K.E.R has that already, comes out next year, search for the tech movie. looks really cool!!

 

[Big Fat Duck]

skyboxes are animated, just not in the current cs maps

start a server with another person, noclip yourself and go to the 3d skybox outside of the map, unnoclip, and walk around on the 3dskybox geometry, have the other guy look at the skybox.. he will se a giant version of you walking around

 

[Ahnteis]

CS:S does not contain all HL2 features.

 

[aeroripper]

skyboxes are animated, just not in the current cs maps

start a server with another person, noclip yourself and go to the 3d skybox outside of the map, unnoclip, and walk around on the 3dskybox geometry, have the other guy look at the skybox.. he will se a giant version of you walking around

that wasn't quite what i was meaning... although i suppose that would be the definition of a animated skybox

Like how in the skybox the clouds and everything look so distant... have them "distant looking" like that and animated... like seeing the bolt of lightning in the distance or some clouds moving slowly or something

 

[UKchaos2]

The 3d Skybox is just another part of the map. You can add animated/moving parts if you want to.

 

[UmbrellaMaster]

Looks to me like skyboxes are handled the same way in Source as they are in Unreal engine. Make a box somewhere outside the playable map, fill the box with whatever you want the sky to have, including animated objects and such, then create a box over your playable part of the level, add a "sky" generic texture and bingo, you've got 3D/Animated sky. At least, that's what it looks like in CS:Source when I spectate outside the playable level.

Expect animated junk in the sky in HL2. It's possible.

 

[staticprimer]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R has that already, comes out next year, search for the tech movie. looks really cool!!

If I hear one for thing like that about stalker I'm gonna shoot someone!

How come Source doesn't toast your bread and make you coffee? S.T.A.L.K.E.R does! Source is so behind the times!

 

[sHm0zY]

Cry me a river and drown in it

 

[Big Fat Duck]

get a smoke grenade and toss it in the 3d skybox geometry,
you got a skybox with moving clouds of smoke yay

I belive the map maker has the control of what scale the 3d skybox is held at, so you can have some real distant things happening

 

[Yak_Fighter]

I was playing CS:S and none of the skybox's were animated... i remember e-mailing gabe and he said they would be animated........ its in the official info thread

I wonder if this was just done in CS:S so not just another thing to lag or in the full game. I remember in the docks video it wasn't either...

There are moving clouds in CS:S, and techically animated skyboxes. The only map I've seen it in is cs_office though. If you noclip out of the map and find the 3d skybox you will see that the whole city area is surrounded by what looks to be a scrolling cloud texture in a hemispheric shape.

 

[f|uke]

If HL2 has animated skyboxes I will be very happy,. somethin about just standing there, soaking up the atmosphere and watching the world change feels so awesome. It makes the world seem so much more alive.

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

HL2 does have animated 3D skyboxes, you've all seen the HL2 movies, where you see the combine tower's parts moving in the distance right? That was in one of last years videos, can't remember which one. Looks wicked anyway if you haven't seen it.

 

[Ownzed]

HL2 does have animated 3D skyboxes, you've all seen the HL2 movies, where you see the combine tower's parts moving in the distance right? That was in one of last years videos, can't remember which one. Looks wicked anyway if you haven't seen it.

I remember that. That's cool stuff.

 

[Phosis]

Just e-mail Gabe again.

 

[koncept]

because theres no such thing as skies being on crack.

 

[aeroripper]

I mean like enviromental skies... not like buildings in the skies

clouds, lightning, light reflecting off the clouds from the lightning... thunder that follows... etc

I really wanted to see that in far cry... but their rain was absolutely horrible

 

[Vinnie_NL]

I thought in the Traptown movie there was an animated skybox, with moving clouds. And I can understand they didn't put them in CSS, where's framerate more important than in HL2 singleplayer.

 

[CommandoSR]

Clouds that cast shadows over the terrain?

 

[Eon Blue]

Why would you want more distractions/less frames in CS:S anyway?

 

[Spugmaster]

I mean like enviromental skies... not like buildings in the skies

clouds, lightning, light reflecting off the clouds from the lightning... thunder that follows... etc

I really wanted to see that in far cry... but their rain was absolutely horrible

You really have a thing for lightning don't you. Every post...lightning this...lightning that

aerorippers idea of the perfect HL2 expansion pack:

HL2 - Storms