Xmas Gubbins.

[Qrv]

'Ello,

Maybe had a drink to many, who knows, but as it's that time of year to be giving stuff, I'm giving some skyboxes away from my current project.

Skyboxes are 1024x1024 .tga's, do whatever you want with em, but if you do something cool, I'd be interested to see some screenshots.

Here's some screenshots of 'em in DarkPlaces, left image is just normal, right side image is using HDR bloom.


"Earth 1" - preview:


"Earth 1" - download:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-ea1ce16f.html



"Earth 2" - preview:


"Earth 2" - download:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-dd96ced0.html



"Earth 3" - preview:


"Earth 3" - download:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-a0f08c37.html



"Nether 1" - preview:


"Nether 1" - download:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-232b02ac.html



"Nether 2" - preview:


"Nether 2" - download:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-97d8449d.html



"Nether 3" - preview:


"Nether 3" - download:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-4320d081.html


Merry Xmas All.

[toneddu2000]

Very very cool Qrv, thanks for sharing!
Nice Xmas present!

[mh]

Nice. Really like the Nether 3 sky in particular. It looks a worthy replacement for the default scrolling sky.

[Qrv]

I'd never thought of that actually mh, I cant see why I couldnt do skyboxes for sky1 and sky4 for standard Q1 replacements.

If there's engines out there that can use a normal skybox, but also do a scrolling cloud layer on it, ( sphereical shape I'd guess ), I could probably do the cloud layer straight out as an alpha .tga for use with it.

Maybe I'l look into replicating sky1 and sky4 for new years, but I promise nothing.

[mh]

Yeah, I think the only real problem with skyboxes is that the clouds don't move. For that alone I still prefer the scrolling sky, but if we had - or could get - some standardization across engines for moving clouds then I'd go for a skybox replacement any time.

[leileilol]

q3map2 has some sort of skyroom hack. Darkplaces can do skyrooms in csqc. what else?

[mh]

The way I'd propose it is a multitextured cubemap setup, with alpha blended cloud layers scrolled using the texture matrix. You could draw that on the original surface polys so you wouldn't need to worry about overdraw, and it would all run on the GPU so performance would be great.

[taniwha]

I'll keep that in mind for my glsl hacking on QF

[stoleYourBike]

nice, might use one