Hi, where can I find sky box textures?

Good skybox''s are suprisingly hard to find. I usually end up making my own in 3dsmax.

A good search word to add to a sky box search in google is half-life.

I did have one site that was really good and i lost the link and havn''t been able to find it again

www.gametutorials.com has a pretty good set of skybox sides.

I wonder if it's possible to use like Adobe Photoshop to take a square picture of an overhead sky and divide it up like this:

________|\    /|| \__/ || |  | || |__| || /  \ ||/    \|--------  

Then squish the 4 trapezoids into squares (now the ascii art lines up!).

At least in theory you'd have 5 squares that line up at the edges, right?

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[edited by - DalTXColtsFan on September 17, 2003 2:43:48 PM]

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[edited by - DalTXColtsFan on September 18, 2003 11:40:12 AM]

http://esprit.campus.luth.se/%7ehumus/

Go in "Textures" section

OT

to make your ascii art line up put it in between and brackets (omit the spaces to make it work)

thus:

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becomes:

-------|     ||     |------- 

Its not a linear distortion on skybox images, it projects a square to 3d, so it wont easily be divided up in photo shop.

3dsm takes a point and renders 6 maps, each one with a diffrent view. Then you can toss them togeather to make a skybox. It would be *quite* hard to divide a normal picture into a sky box (and you will lose quality the further from the middle of the image).

Thanks paladine!

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Is there much deman for skyboxes? If so I might make a few if you want. I make mine using a little photoshop and some bryce.

Try Terragen. It''s free for non commercial use and there''s a plugin for making skyboxes.

Here is were i got mine, very cool faces
http://www.planethalflife.com/crinity/skymain.htm