How to make a skybox?

[Cuinnton]

Hey fello nexians!

I've spent the last 8 hours trying to make a specific sky box for my gasoline powered edit viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5896. I'm trying to make a detailed skybox orbiting over the earth similar to this...

http://i706.photobucket.com/albums/ww69 ... x10801.jpg

I've been trying to use Terragen http://www.planetside.co.uk/content/view/16/28/ which is great for environments, but isn't to good for space environments.
Instead I am trying to approach this using a panoramic photo maker like http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
Although this is harder than I thought. Its easy enough to just paste an earth .jpg onto the down square on the 2D skybox. Although this doesn't get the perspective nearly as close as id like to the planets surface. So I need to some how stretch the earth .jpg over the the down and left right back and front squares.

How can I achieve this? Does anyone have experience with space skyboxs? Any help would be much appreciated.

[giuseppe]

i have no enough experience in making skybox, but i can just put here some tutorial link based on Blender

1. wikibooks
2. katsbits
3. blenderartists

[Rad Ished]

Morfar gave me this:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... -_Advanced
looks very useful.

[sev]

To make the Newsky skyboxes I used Blender. You can have a look at the .blend sourcefiles (and modify them for your purposes, as long as you comply with the GPL of course).

My setup is based on this method: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D ... d_a_skybox

To learn how to actually work with blender you'll need to consult the manuals: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual

[Cuinnton]

ok thanks for that guys.
I Tried the blender method but I just find blender has such a big learning curve and I always endup stuffing things up.
I'm using Terragen 2 instead now which is a bloody powerful program. Hard at first but you get use to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KwxVO6V ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKoAv3BABt4

Here's some test images made so far


I'll keep you posted on the sky box

Also can nexuiz use 3D skyboxs?

[Morphed]

Also can nexuiz use 3D skyboxs?

yes, it can, by using _skybox entity