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RE: this archived therad

I've read from the point where rgoer has made the hex sphere model, but it's a bit harder to understand without the images there.

I've downloaded the pk3 and had a look at the contents, but I haven't got the foggiest what I would need to do to get this working.

Firstly... is this the only way a skybox will work seemlesly with ATI and nVidia cards?

Secondly... is it possible to use his model/scripts and get any custom skybox working, and if so how?!

I knowing of that but there is this in programming http://quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10535

right.. but can I release that with a single map pk3? I don't really want to have players loading a mod just to fix some stupid bug.

angular mapped skies don't just sidestep the ATI bug (actually q3map2 has a -skyfix parameter to deal with this too), they also allow you to add extra stages to the sky shader, such as scrolling clouds etc

Myth wrote: Firstly... is this the only way a skybox will work seemlesly with ATI and nVidia cards?

there are shaderlab_1337 and shaderlab_skybox maps that look pretty much the same, and they both don't have the seams problems. My guess is that they're evolutions of rgoers idea.

Alas I tried to google for them but I only got dead links. I still have the maps, but not in pk3 style, so if anyone else can lend me a hand in this....

Hr.O

Uh-oh! Is it just me or does shaderlab no longer work? I get directed to some LinuxGames website.

http://www.shaderlab.com/

I can't seem to locate shaderlab either.

heh, that sucks

Still have the zipped pk3, so I uploaded it.

Get it here.

Plan B wrote:Still have the zipped pk3, so I uploaded it.

Get it here.

Damn beat me to it :icon32:

Anyways HReaper also has it: http://trthome.dyndns.org:8000/Reaper/s ... b_1337.zip

Anyone have ydnar's email, btw? Not his shaderlab one, obviously. PM me please.

angular map skies (shaderlab_1337, et al) are not the same thing as the hex-sphere model method

I got some good results from the angular mapping thing, as did a lot of other people, but your skies start to break down at the horizon

the hex sphere will be perfect, no matter what

the only caviat is that you have to use a Q3Map2 portal sky (it's been so long... is it a "_skybox" entity? I can't remember) in order for the hex-sphere to work properly, whereas angular mapped sky shaders just "work" on normal sky brushes

Is there a tutorial or instructions anywhere how I can use the hex-sphere model with my sky. Is it just a case of altering the shader?

@rgoer: _skybox and _1337 are both portal skies. The difference between them is that 1337 has a foggy alphamap solution for the bottom.
btb, nice work on that sky. pitty that the terrain hides the bottom of the map (gawd.. It looks good w/o terrain)

Myth: you have the sample map(s), It's pretty easy to find out how stuff works.

Myth hit me back on MSN.

I know exactly what you mean, I know exactly how it works and I got all the neccessary files including my own skyboxes I made using the same method.

It's a bit much to type it all out here and my English isn't that user friendly for those that also want to understand :icon25:

I started writing a lengthy tutorial about using this sort of sky ages ago, maybe it's time I dug out out and finished it.

Being as it was actually me that said "hay guyz did ne1 try an ASE model w/ sky texes on", and all :P

Shallow man, I mailed you some time ago. Had some stuff to discuss, including this. I sent it to the account listed on your website. Did you get it?

Actually I just got and replied to the mail you sent yesterday. If you mean you had sent one before that, no I didn't get it, probably due to the randomness of Hotmail's spam filter.