skybox material problem

[AnKOu]

Hi, I try to create a custom skybox for l4d2, I made it with terragen. I created .vtfs with the photoshop plugin with "sky" preset. But the result is strange

material : there is not a lot of detail (and really dark) but I simplified it due to the poor result I had :


ingame :


here are example of vmt i tried :

sky
{
"$basetexture" "skybox/pripyat_night_dn"
"$hdrbasetexture" "skybox/pripyat_night_dn"
"$nofog" 1
"$ignorez" 1
}

unlitgeneric
{
"$basetexture" "skybox/pripyat_night_dn"
"$nofog" 1
"$ignorez" 1
}

None of them resolve problem

have you ideas?

[Plague]

Try going through this article and making sure your vtf is set up optimally for this type of texture.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... ure_Format

[AnKOu]

It has clamp S, clampT, Hint DXT5, No Mipmap, 8 bit alpha, it should be good.

[Chopium]

If you toss me the original files I can compile the hdr textures and do the .vmt stuff for you.

[AnKOu]

It is very nice, but I think it could be better to try to make a hdr version of just this image ( http://uppix.net/d/6/e/ac3835d4f3af93b7 ... ecac6.html ), and all the vmt stuff. Then I try ingame to see if it solve the problem.

Because, actually the sky isn't finished, it was just an attempt. So I prefer to know how to fix this bug before finishing the sky.

Other than, is it this method which you want to use? http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... x_Creation