Skies

Topics about creating skies for game environments.

Environment Sky Tutorials

• Bungie's Destiny - Art Dump on the Polycount Forum has a bit of info about their skyboxes.
• Creating a current gen 3D Skybox map? on the Polycount Forum has links and info.
• The Order: 1886 Vista Art Dump on the Polycount Forum shows wireframes & lighting passes for their skyboxes.
• Homeworld 2 – Backgrounds shows how vertex color was used to make their skies.
• 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.
• 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.

Sky Textures

• Big cube map pack free cubemaps by Emil 'Humus' Persson and Kostas 'kodde' Gialitakis
• CG Textures - Panoramic Skies ($) HDR sky panoramas.
• Philo's Sky Collection free sky panoramas.
• Dosch Design HDR Sets ($) 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

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