OMG skybox's

[cinnamon]

Since I haven't been able to play Urt I've been trying to learn how to map, and I think I've read every skybox tutorial out there and I still can't make a working skybox  I can't believe how frustrated I am with this.

This is what I have tried - I made a small box hollowed it and made some ground, then I add a skybox entity hit N and made the _scale 128, then I add caulk to all the walls.

Ok so I found the codey1 textures in zpak000_assets and put sky textures in the evn file because I read that I needed to do that. I found the codey1 shader also in zpak000_assets and put that into the scripts folder, and I added codey1 to my shaderlist.txt

And all I get is Hall of mirrors. 

Can someone please let me know what I'm doing wrong and please use small word, I'm a noob.

Also if you need me to attach any files just let me know which ones you want to see.

Thanks in advance

[Biohazard]

Here's a tip: Don't use _skybox, that's a major FAIL entity.

Just search around, you might be able to find a random sky (with a whitebox signaling that it's a shader) that works.

[cinnamon]

Well I did try it without the entity and still got the hall of mirrors so I'm doing something else wrong too.

The texture I am using is oilbox02_up in the codey1 folder, it does have a white box around it, but all I ever get is hall of mirrors or I get the image it just doesn't look like a sky, it's a bunch of little square skies all over the place.

[Blake]

That one is just a texture so it wont work, what you need is a shader. An example of one is austria/austria_skybox. Just make a hollow box around the entire map and texture it with that shader and it should work. Hope that helps.

[inka]

ooohh thanks i thoght u had to make a _skybox aswell XD

[cinnamon]

That one is just a texture so it wont work, what you need is a shader. An example of one is austria/austria_skybox. Just make a hollow box around the entire map and texture it with that shader and it should work. Hope that helps.

WOW! That was easy.

I'm going to guess that most of the tutorials I read were supposed to help you make a shader and not a skybox.

Anyway

Thanks Bio
Thanks Blake

[Biohazard]

No problem cin, any questions, I'm open.

[Blake]

No prob 

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