Coastline Sky texture ? Created 15 years ago2009-10-30 16:38:12 UTC by psilous

Does anyone have a skytexture (or willing to make me one?)

I tryed like 3 times, but i keep botching it up, and it makes it look really awful..

I need/want one that looks like your sitting on the beach staring off into the ocean horizon (with sand/jungle being the bottom face)

with the ocean horizon/setting or rising sun in the top left corner of the x-axis (so.. the left and back sky faces)

anyone can help me, please?

Have you tried Terragen? I could make something up, but I'd need to know what sides (top down) to make have the parts you want.
(You could always rename and rotate it, but that would take a while)

i have not tryed terrangen.. :/

though would you really make me one? that would be awesome!

k.. uhm.. well

top - can be just plain sky, or slightly with clouds, whatev
bottom - should be sand or jungle, something that looks like you can stand on it
back - like a ocean horizon scenary, with the sun on the far left corner (fairly close to the top)
left - the other half of the ocean scenary, this time with the sun to the far right (so that it lines up with the part on the back)

[pardon me if i have teh back and left walls switch around in my head, it sounded funny as i typed it]

right and front walls - can be any rendition of island scenary (with the exception of buildings)

and taht would be just perfect

would you really make me one?

I'll make just an Island, I can't do trees or anything, so you'll need to add those yourself.
SO:
|Sun |
| |
| |
___
Like that, as a top view?

like..

_ back

left | | right

_ front

from x-axis

heres one i tryed:

left wall:back wall:but it looks crappy in game

something like that will do nicely though ^_^

Doing final render for your skybox, It'll be a while, though.
Just realized you wanted the back face to be the coastline. Gonna restart rendering in a second.
EDIT: Rendering done, I'll convert and upload it later.

THANK YOU!!! Your completely awesome!

I'll post a link to the map its going in after i get that hosted and compiled with the sky in it (in the maps section)

I was about to recommend the old-but-still-completely-awesome Wadfather website, but when I went to grab you a link I discovered that the Wadfather has finally shut down.
Well that's a shame.

I made it about 50m in the air, so the horizon would be more visible than the ground, also, sorry about the sand being so dark, I tried to make it lighter but failed. I've included the source BMPs, as well as directions on how to turn it into a skybox properly. Feel free to photoshop some trees on.
http://rapidshare.com/files/301034083/Pskies.zip.html
Also, sorry about the sun, it's a bit hard to make out because it's so bright.

"This file can only be downloaded by becoming a premium member"

can you host it on www.megaupload.com

or just send it to my email?

kichikubeihei@hotmail.com

Try downloading it in an hour or so, aparently they don't have room for anyone who doesn't pay right now.
I've run into this before, just try again off peak hours.

sure thingo

k, got it now

/edits

THANKS AGAIN!

@psilous, those images look trippy.

Hope they work for you!

Jeff got some screens so that others may grab the box? With full credit to you of course.

JeffMOD is credit to TWHL skybox fund.

sigh okay, let me open imageshack...
For future reference, http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Skybox_(2D)_with_Terragen_and_Skypaint_-_Advanced Skyboxes must be 256x256 TGA files.
Just download and convert to TGA:Gallery: http://img688.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=pskybk.png

Thanks again man!

They worked out great!

I ended up having to pinken it up a little (cause the sun was waaay to bright that the additive sprites that are suppose to resemble a glare were invisible at first)

but it looks a beaut in game

cant say the same for the map.. leaf saw through thread error..

im not waiting another 3 days for compile, so im going to wait a month for my new comp.. i'll have links for the map where appropriate when i get them though