Create Realistic Sky Boxes

[ScarT]

You made a minor mistake. You put the ROLL values where the YAW values should have been. This will give you identical sides :P

Also, for some reason my skybox isn't seamless. Suggestions?

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maybe you rendered it with the wrong values
check your camera angles?

[1447]

You made a minor mistake. You put the ROLL values where the YAW values should have been. This will give you identical sides :P

Also, for some reason my skybox isn't seamless. Suggestions?

Image (1680x1050)

Maybe you forgot to set the Focal value to 18, like I did. And according to Flynt, compiling the texture with Clamp S and Clamp T in VTFedit is also important.

But I noticed your texture is free of watermarks, so I have to ask: Are you using the PLE? If yes, did you find a way to render the texture without watermarks? Because I'm trying to make a custom skybox for my Christmas Competition entry, but frankly, the sky looks fuck ugly with "E-ON!" printed all over. Yes, I'm aware of that there's probably no way in hell I can remove these watermarks without buying the program, but unfortunately, I'm desperate.

PS: Sorry for spamming this thread with all kinds of questions.

[JLea]

This is fantastic, I spent ages trying Terragen and all that other stuff when this works perfectly.

[ScarT]

Maybe you forgot to set the Focal value to 18, like I did. And according to Flynt, compiling the texture with Clamp S and Clamp T in VTFedit is also important.

I check the Focal value was set to 18 right after I saw it wasn't seamless. I also check the flags were set properly, still no go. Guess I'll try again tomorrow.

[vcool]

yum.

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:/

Doesn't look like it compiled properly. The base texture was a 1024 * 1024 PNG converted to VTFs in VTFEdit.

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I dont get why people find terragen so hard, its so eazy to use?

[ScarT]

yum.

edit:

:/

Doesn't look like it compiled properly. The base texture was a 1024 * 1024 PNG converted to VTFs in VTFEdit.

Well at least I'm not the only one with that problem :/

[FlynT]

Hey all, sry for the late reply!

Did everyone of you use a Atmospheric Cloud Model? In Vue there are some Clouds that only work for plain Concepts or something. So be sure that you use an Atmospheric Cloud Model. I will check the Tutorial later that day, maybe i got something wrong.

[ScarT]

I followed the tutorial step by step, and it gave me that result I posted earlier.

[vcool]

I used post-processing, could that be the problem?

Although that is very improbable, since the textures obviously fit each other colour-wise. It looks as if the sky cube isn't uniformly lit, i.e some sides are darker than otehrs as if they are shadowed.

D'you know what I mean? :/

[Mr-Jigsaw]

Yeah, don't use any post-processing, especially the fake HDR, the camera response or whatever.

And its not that its easier than terragen, its just better.

[vcool]

Ok I'll try it again. It is difficult to get that colour using atmosphere alone :/

Also I noticed that you can create terrain too.

[KILLA-COW]

Nah.

[vcool]

I think I figured it.

I disabeld "Compute REflectivity" in VTFEdit. TRying to get in game now, stay tuned.