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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / 2 skyboxes.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2005 20:10
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Maybe I am missing somthing really obvious, if I am then please feel free to point it out and call me a slaphead.

Now, I am trying to use two skyboxes, one must be translucent so that the other can be seen through it, but only the parts that are black.

I just woke up and am trying to do this and I know there must be a way to set the translucency of and object but I cant for the life of me find it.
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Van B
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Posted: 26th Jan 2005 21:03
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There are a couple of options, although I prefer skyshere's myself. Anyhoo, you could make 1 skybox slightly bigger and solid so it becomes your backdrop, then on a smaller skybox you'd set it's transparency to 2 (SET OBJECT TRANSPARENCY) and then set the alpha level: SET OBJECT AMBIENT Obj,percent I think.

Best to avoid ghosting as to fade it out, you'd need to enable lighting on it, which would make it look strange because it's a cube (like you'd see some faces as brighter than the others, killing the skybox illusion).


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Posted: 26th Jan 2005 21:31
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Well my aim is to produce a kind of nebula effect with the second skybox, this would be the translucent one that would allow the player to see stars through it, I am not quite sure how well it will work out until I try it . But yes I intedned to make the second skybox much smaller in the hopes this would make things look multi-dimensional.

The problem I have with skyshperes (and I could be wrong here) is that every demo I have seen that uses one has this empty space at the polar caps (for want of a better term to describe it) that the texture does not cover. Now this could just be me only ever seeing bad skypheres/coding, if I am wrong then tell me so, as I must admit I would prefer to use skyspheres.
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Posted: 27th Jan 2005 23:14
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Try doing it the way they did it in Homeworld 2. Looks like they just used several planes that are always facing the camera.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2005 23:44
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I never played homeworld 2 so no idea what it looks like. Screeny?
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