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Bruno
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 02:09
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some can tellme something about the sky spheres or boxes??

In DBPro dont work the texture backdrop, I review the reference Manual and said that this command is now obsolete and tell something about using sky spheres and boxes like alternative, but i dont now nathing about this functions...
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KNau
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 04:35
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The idea is to create a large inverted (so the polygons are facing inwards) box or sphere and texture that object with your desired background image. The skybox is larger than your playing area so the player is always within the box and it appears that there is a sky background. Does that help?

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BatVink
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 22:12
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Quote: "The skybox is larger than your playing area "


...although you can (and should really) go one step further. The box only has to be as big as your camera cut-off. You always centre the Skybox on your current position, so you never get any closer or further from it.

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UnderLord
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Posted: 17th Oct 2003 06:32
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ahh yes sky boxes look really really nice too except for one thing it seems to me that as i go from one end of my small world to the next i seem to see blue in the corner of the skybox...how can i fix this?

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spooky
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Posted: 17th Oct 2003 12:04
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This is probably because the corner is just outside camera range. Either increase camera range or make skybox a tad smaller.

You should also turn off lighting for skybox.

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BatVink
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Posted: 17th Oct 2003 16:35 Edited at: 17th Oct 2003 16:36
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your camera range wants to be SQRT((x * x) + (z * z))

where x and z is half the width/length of your box

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Bruno
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Posted: 17th Oct 2003 21:01
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someone can giveme a example of skyboxes
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