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Help / Re: how do i make my own skybox?

« on: August 31, 2019, 11:15:34 PM »

tried another go at it, was suprisingly simple second time around.

up next : actual clouds

as to how i did it : for the top and bottom layer of clouds i just use a plane and slapped on a transparent image

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Help / Re: how do i make my own skybox?

« on: August 31, 2019, 08:46:46 PM »

Quote from: phflack on August 31, 2019, 08:10:02 PM

what's the issue, the top edges don't match the side edges or something?
you should be able to copy and rotate the top piece over and work on each edge individually

well that isnt needed, whats needed is i need to somehow smooth the top part, which is made up of the 4 tops of the other parts that line up with it
and rotating is a pain in the ass in paint.net, you cant just "rotate by 90 degrees", you have to use a command which can sometimes place the rotated image outside of the canvas meanin you have to retry, and a whole bunch of other stuff, you can just input a value to rotate it by

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Help / Re: how do i make my own skybox?

« on: August 31, 2019, 06:25:50 PM »

noedit : tried to stitch it together in blender, got a headache trying to figure out how to add textures to the rendered model. gonna try to continue this tomorrow, if anyone has any better ideas please post them, i really want to make a skybox and have a good method for making skyboxes

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Help / Re: how do i make my own skybox?

« on: August 31, 2019, 06:01:29 PM »

Quote from: Masterlegodude on August 31, 2019, 04:28:11 PM

That plugin is for spherical view images, which i think is like when you take a 360 degree photo that gets stitched together, which, your textures are not that, and that's why they get distorted

ah, ok, that explains that i guess
a further update : got this far into making a skybox, then ran into a brick wall : i have absolutely no idea how to smooth this out so that its seamless. anyone got any ideas?

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Help / Re: how do i make my own skybox?

« on: August 31, 2019, 04:18:47 PM »

noedit : found a method of how you could probably distort your skybox to be spherical, and i'd imagine you can combine this with trogtor's method.
as for generating a skybox, and keep it seamless all in paint.net, i'm still not sure how you would do that.

just use the subdivision surface modifier and crank it up abit, then it creates a perfect sphere-cube-shape onto which you can just place your flat, seamless textures and it will distort them.

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Help / Re: how do i make my own skybox?

« on: August 31, 2019, 03:59:09 PM »

Quote from: jes00 on August 31, 2019, 06:07:02 AM

https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=323182.0

this still requires you to use pre-made skyboxes, not generate your own. also, i found a paint.net plugin that automatically maps a cube to a sphere ( https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/28104-trs-spherecuber-spherical-view-to-cube-view-converter/ )
but, when used, it pinches the top and bottom of the sphere, making it basically useless. also had to finnick around with how on earth im supposed to make it seamless in paint.net but i just ended up mirroring it, which looks jarring.

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Off Topic / Re: So I found this Teaser Trailer for “The Wall”... (starring the Nostalgia Critic)

« on: August 31, 2019, 02:58:02 AM »

he plays the stuffty games that suck ass

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] Funimation EXPOSED!

« on: August 31, 2019, 12:21:29 AM »

can we cancel the entire funimation team

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Help / how do i make my own skybox?

« on: August 30, 2019, 09:24:08 PM »

ive been trying to make my OWN skybox for like 2 weeks now but i still cannot figure out how the forget to make one
i've already patched together a skybox once before, but what tools are required to actually draw your own skybox? or generate one?
ive searched and searched and the only tutorials i can find are on how to make a skybox from a pre-made set of images, but i want to completely make/generate one on my own, without any
of that nonsense. plz help. cant find anything.

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