Quake 3 BSP skyboxes?

[Mexicouger]

Im having quite a bit of troubles getting a skybox to show up! I have a hollowed box around my map with a shader named map1_sky.
Then my shader looks like this:

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textures/map1/map1_skybox1
{
qer_editorimage textures/map1/sky1.tga
surfaceparm noimpact
surfaceparm nolightmap
surfaceparm sky
q3map_sun .1 .2 .8 130 170 78
q3map_surfacelight 130

skyparms env/map1/sky - -
}

When I compile and start up my map, there is just a big black box surrounding my map. Any help would be much appreciated!

[Chip]

Here is my sky shader:

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textures/dev-orange-black
{
//   q3map_sunExt 1 1 1 120 -35 25 3 16 // red green blue intensity degrees elevation deviance samples
//   q3map_lightmapFilterRadius 0 8 // self other

//   q3map lightimage env/envmap/miramar_up.tga //color of projected light
//   q3map_globaltexture

   //q3map_lightsubdivide 256
   //q3map_surfacelight 400

   // fog density red green blue [alpha [mindist [maxdist [top [fadedepth]]]]])

   qer_editorimage env/envmap/darkness_sky/editor.jpg
   
   skyParms env/envmap/darkness_sky/darkness_sky 2048 -
   q3map lightimage env/envmap/darkness_sky/darkness_sky_up.tga //color of projected light
   q3map_globaltexture

   q3map_sunExt 0.68 0.68 0.90 200 250 50 // R G B Intensity Angle Pitch


   q3map_skylight 100 4 // amount iterations
   q3map_noFog
   
   surfaceparm sky // flags compiler that this is sky
   surfaceparm noimpact
   surfaceparm nolightmap
   surfaceparm nodlight
   nopicmip
   nomipmaps
}

Just ignore the // commented lines, those are just tests.

[Mexicouger]

I tried your shader as well and applied it and its still nothing but a black box... Im wondering if theres something more I need to do with creating a box around my map. Do I need to just apply the shader on the inner faces, and apply something else on the outer faces?

EDIT: My bad haha. I just had fog turned on this whole time and it was disabling me from seeing anything!! So I had a skybox this entire time. Moral of this story? Don't put fog until your done with the map.

[Spike]

r_fastsky 0

[Mexicouger]

While Im on topic, how exactly do I create a cloud layer? I thought I was doing it right but I guess not. And my skybox doesn't show up automatically either, I have to load it through the console "loadsky sky_"

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textures/map1/map1_skybox
{
   qer_editorimage textures/map1/sky1.tga
   surfaceparm noimpact
   surfaceparm nolightmap
   surfaceparm sky
   q3map_globaltexture
   q3map_lightsubdivide 256
   q3map_sun .1 .2 .8 50 170 78
   q3map_surfacelight 50

   skyparms env/sky_ 512 -
   {
      map textures/map1/clouds.tga
      tcMod scroll 0.1 0.1
      tcMod scale 3 2
   }

}