the sky texture... Created 21 years ago2003-10-16 11:22:31 UTC by D4rKM4tcH

hey how do you make the sky texture one great pig texture becuase when i create my sky it has just a bunch of like 64x64 textures is there a way to make it 1 texture or like 4 something low?

Check the texture application (on the toolbar to the left), make sure that the texture size look something like this 1.00 0

1.00    0

can anyone send me some sky textures and some water textures? :

hey man wtf where does it say 1.00 0 at????

D4rKM4tch, sky textures are not like regular textures, the little 16x16 light blue texture called SKY that you use in Hammer simply tells Half-Life to load the environment map that is specified under Map Properties (Map menu>Map Properties...>Environment map(cl_skyname)).
A list of the default skymaps included with Half-Life is here:
http://www.annihilator.com/gameediting/halflife/editing/hl_skytextlist.html
The ACTUAL environment map is composed of 6 TGA bitmap files which are stored in the directory 'modnamegfxenv' and have the names blahup, blahdn, blahlt, blahrt, blahft, blahbk, where blah is the name of the environment map that you specify in Map Properties.

If you're using Steam, the environment maps, like the rest of map resources have been hidden inside a cache file, and aren't accessible anymore. BUT you can still add new environment maps like always by creating the gfxenv directory in 'SteamSteamApps<youremailaddress><GAMEname><mod_directorygfxenv' and copying whatever environment map TGA's you want into it.

It's fairly difficult to make a good looking sky map, but if you search the web, there are plenty of good ones you can download:
http://www.google.com/search?q=half-life+sky+maps

P.S. the terms 'sky map' and 'environment map' have been used interchangeably here.

thx man ill try thats kinda complicated a bit but ill get it