Skies

Topics about creating skies for game environments.

Environment Sky Tutorials

 * Virtual Terrain Project: Sky / Atmospheric Rendering has many links to sky rendering resources.
 * 360 HDR skies for sale? from the Polycount forums has a tutorial and links about photographing HDR skies.
 * How to: Create a Terragen 2 Skybox by Outpt.
 * 3dmotive.com - Creating a Skydome is a tutorial for converting a latlong sky into a spheremap layout and mapping it to a dome mesh with Photoshop and 3ds Max. More free tutorials here.
 * Skymap workflow by divi is a quick tutorial about converting a latlong sky into a square dome-like layout that uses all the texture space. [attachment:Skymap_workflow.pdf PDF here]
 * How to: Convert a Skybox to a Skydome by Outpt is an in-depth tutorial about converting a cubemap into a latlong image with CubeMapGen, HDRShop, Photoshop, and Unreal.

Sky Textures

 * Big cube map pack free cubemaps by Emil 'Humus' Persson and Kostas 'kodde' Gialitakis
 * CG Textures - Panoramic Skies free sky panoramas.
 * Philo's Sky Collection free sky panoramas.
 * Dosch Design HDR Sets ($) HDR sky panoramas.
 * Hyperfocal Design: Hyperfocal HDRI Skies (S) HDR sky panoramas.
 * Marlin Studios Panoramica ($) sky panoramas.
 * Johannes Schlörb: Dreamscape 2.1 Immersive Sky Backgrounds ($) CG sky panoramas.
 * 1000 Skies ($) sky panoramas.
 * Vue is a popular skydome creation tool.
 * Terragen is another popular skydome creation tool.
 * Virtual Terrain Project: Sky / Atmospheric Rendering has links to sky texture sites.

More Information

 * Cube map
 * Environment Reference
 * Environment Texturing