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[RELEASE] Sirius Skybox 2025

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Gamma39er:
Here it is. My first skybox release in 2 years. Sirius.

I've been playtesting this skybox by playing the only mission in Freespace where we go to Sirius, Clash of the Titans.


So I'm actually pretty satisfied with this. I know there are things to improve, but this skybox actually covers a lot of what I've always been trying to do all along. Now I just need to take these techniques I've learned and design:

* Betelgeuse.
* Ikeya
* Deneb
* Ribos
* Ross 128
* Alpha Centauri
* Altair
* Delta Serpentis
* Beta Cygni
* Beta Aquilae
And then all of FS1 will be done.

The zip includes:

* A maps folder with .dds files for the 6 sides of a cubic skybox.
* A models folder with one cube with the textures attached to the 6 sides.
The model is important. Just doing a normal cube projection on any cube isn't going to work. I specifically render out my cube face textures to have a camera angle of arctan(1024/1020)*180/pi. The UV's of the model are scaled to the same ratio and so the result is a perfectly seamless skybox with no extra effort on my part after this setup was finished.

Here's the download. As always, critique is welcome.

Sirius Skybox 2025

skdKitsune:
Very nice. The sun lensflare looks good as well.
Now I just wonder how Delta Serpentis (the notoriously very green system) and Gamma Draconis (apparently also green-ish in retail?) will differ from this.

Gamma39er:

--- Quote from: skdKitsune on January 08, 2025, 12:14:00 pm ---Very nice. The sun lensflare looks good as well.
Now I just wonder how Delta Serpentis (the notoriously very green system) and Gamma Draconis (apparently also green-ish in retail?) will differ from this.

--- End quote ---

My plan for both of those systems is to make Delta Serpentis more bluish green as well as darker and creepier, with the nebulas implying a direction towards the node. For Gamma Draconis I want something similar but with more sparse Bok globules.

Marguel:
Impressive! Can't wait to see the rest of them!

ShivanSlayer:
Looks impressive!

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