Skies
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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.
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