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Dale:
I want to make a slate edit using this skybox http://imgur.com/IF2JN but i don't even know where to start.
Mega-Bear:
1. Cut it into six images, starting with the panoramic portion. Name each of them 1-4. Then cut the top portion and name it 5.
2. Resize all of them to 256x256.
3. Save them as JPGs.
4. Cut the bottom portion and save it as a 4x4 JPG named 6.
5. Create a TXT called "resource."
6. Inside resource.txt type:
--- Code: ---1
2
3
4
5
6
--- End code ---
7. Rename resource.txt to resource.dml, if it is not a DML then you will have no skybox.
8. Put it all in a folder, name it whatever you want then place the skybox's folder into your map folder.
9. Reference the skybox in your map's MIS and you now have a working skybox.
If you need to know anything else, look at default skyboxes or other people's skyboxes. That's how I learned to make one, it's very easy.
Plexious:
--- Quote from: Mega-Bear on June 28, 2012, 05:24:16 PM ---1. Cut it into six images, starting with the panoramic portion. Name each of them 1-4. Then cut the top portion and name it 5.
2. Resize all of them to 256x256.
3. Save them as JPGs.
4. Cut the bottom portion and save it as a 4x4 JPG named 6.
5. Create a TXT called "resource."
6. Inside resource.txt type:
--- Code: ---1
2
3
4
5
6
--- End code ---
7. Rename resource.txt to resource.dml, if it is not a DML then you will have no skybox.
8. Put it all in a folder, name it whatever you want then place the skybox's folder into your map folder.
9. Reference the skybox in your map's MIS and you now have a working skybox.
If you need to know anything else, look at default skyboxes or other people's skyboxes. That's how I learned to make one, it's very easy.
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It may be better to resize them to 512*512.
Dale:
--- Quote from: Mega-Bear on June 28, 2012, 05:24:16 PM ---1. Cut it into six images, starting with the panoramic portion. Name each of them 1-4. Then cut the top portion and name it 5.
2. Resize all of them to 256x256.
4. Cut the bottom portion and save it as a 4x4 JPG named 6.
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Whats the "panoramic Portion? because "panoramic" means Birds-Eye view, but it cant be the bottom.
Mega-Bear:
--- Quote from: Plexious on June 28, 2012, 08:17:06 PM ---It may be better to resize them to 512*512.
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Each portion right now is 400, resizing them to 512 would deteriorate the quality. As-is it is already somewhat unappealing.
--- Quote from: Dale on June 28, 2012, 08:33:34 PM ---Whats the "panoramic Portion? because "panoramic" means Birds-Eye view, but it cant be the bottom.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_photography
The panoramic part is horizontal.
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