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Title: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Droid803 on June 26, 2008, 03:47:03 pm
I'm looking for a skydome that has a planet directly below the battlefield. Something like the one in BP, but rotated so that the planet is straight down, not to one side.
It'd be helpful for my...uh...campaign. Yeah.

Thanks.

Alternatively, is there a way to rotate a skydome in FRED or PCS2?
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: 0rph3u5 on June 26, 2008, 03:53:05 pm
TBP has various such skyboxes
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Droid803 on June 26, 2008, 03:54:30 pm
Urh...means I'll have to download something massive, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 26, 2008, 03:57:15 pm
Urh...means I'll have to download something massive, doesn't it?
Of course not. Just under 800 megs. Or, if someone was to extract the skyboxes and post them here...
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: ShadowGorrath on June 26, 2008, 03:59:19 pm
I call for someone extracting and posting them here. Seriously, I'd need them ;)
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Droid803 on June 26, 2008, 04:00:54 pm
Alright fine. I guess my bandwidth can take the abuse...
It'll give me another mod to play over the summer.


Scratch that.
FSMods link doesn't is removed, the others don't support DL accelerator meaning it'll take forever and then some...damn it.


Someone...anyone...please?
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 26, 2008, 04:04:34 pm
FSMods link doesn't is removed, the others don't support DL accelerator meaning it'll take forever and then some...damn it.
Bah. A few hours. That's nothing. Once, back in the days, I downloaded the Mafia demo with a dial-up. 13 ****ing hours but I did it.

Awright, awright. I have TBP somewhere. I'll try to dig up the skyboxes.
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Droid803 on June 26, 2008, 04:23:17 pm
Awright, awright. I have TBP somewhere. I'll try to dig up the skyboxes.

Much thanks!
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 26, 2008, 04:29:11 pm
K. These (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/FunkyFreeSpaceStuff/tbpskyboxes.7z) are the ones I could find with minimal effort (meaning, there was "skybox" in the file name). If someone is certain that there are more, do tell me, or find them yourselves.
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Herra Tohtori on June 26, 2008, 04:31:18 pm
I'm looking for a skydome that has a planet directly below the battlefield. Something like the one in BP, but rotated so that the planet is straight down, not to one side.
It'd be helpful for my...uh...campaign. Yeah.

Thanks.

Alternatively, is there a way to rotate a skydome in FRED or PCS2?


...Why don't you FRED the mission sideways instead? :nervous:

I mean, there's no such thing as "down" in space anyway. Just vectors, some of which might point to somewhere else than deep sky starfield. :p
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Snail on June 26, 2008, 04:34:44 pm
I'm looking for a skydome that has a planet directly below the battlefield. Something like the one in BP, but rotated so that the planet is straight down, not to one side.
It'd be helpful for my...uh...campaign. Yeah.

Thanks.

Alternatively, is there a way to rotate a skydome in FRED or PCS2?


...Why don't you FRED the mission sideways instead? :nervous:

I mean, there's no such thing as "down" in space anyway. Just vectors, some of which might point to somewhere else than deep sky starfield. :p
It's more of a hassle using the Y axis in FRED as there is no grid to guide you (also you can only create ships on the grid) and mainly I find myself using the XZ movement controls. I usually do the Y positioning in the Orientation Editor.
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Droid803 on June 26, 2008, 04:42:41 pm
Yeah, I do what Snail does as well, since the grid makes it easier to judge distances.
Thanks for those skyboxes, Lobo.  ;)
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on June 26, 2008, 08:43:49 pm
I think you can find one in Toronto, ON.


Skyboxes are a different matter.
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Black Wolf on June 26, 2008, 09:03:35 pm
You can flip the grid around to any axis you want in FRED.
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Galemp on June 27, 2008, 08:15:34 am
Or after everything is done, select all your ships, press T, then hold down one of the rotation keys.
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Herra Tohtori on June 27, 2008, 10:17:03 am
Or after everything is done, select all your ships, press T, then hold down one of the rotation keys.

Does that rotate all ships around their own center of gravity, or does it translate their position on a circular path around the FRED co-ordinate origo as well?
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Galemp on June 27, 2008, 11:43:48 am
It rotates everything selected around the center of the marked ship (usually Alpha 1, since it's the first ship placed.)
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Agent_Koopa on June 27, 2008, 04:04:39 pm
I think you can find one in Toronto, ON.


Skyboxes are a different matter.

I'm afraid you're mistaken. Skydome? What Skydome?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/RogersCentre_Toronto_Sept1-05.jpg
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on June 27, 2008, 06:04:33 pm
I think you can find one in Toronto, ON.


Skyboxes are a different matter.

I'm afraid you're mistaken. Skydome? What Skydome?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/RogersCentre_Toronto_Sept1-05.jpg

       Yeah, it's ****ing lame.
       In my hometown we had "Saskatchewan Place" for the local arena, now it's called "Teacher's Credit Union Place" or something like that. People just call it the "T-Cup" now. Why people have to put their lousy brand name all over an arena while erasing a name which actually matters is beyond me. Just call it Roger's Skydome. Whatever. Keep the original name though.

        But anyway . . . skyboxes are cool!
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Droid803 on June 27, 2008, 06:06:53 pm
I called it a skydome because its in a dome shape, not a box-shape.
Boxes have, you know, straight edges and right angles and such. This thing is rounded...
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 28, 2008, 02:52:48 am
I called it a skydome because its in a dome shape, not a box-shape.
Boxes have, you know, straight edges and right angles and such. This thing is rounded...
The Earth is often referred to as a sphere when, in reality, it is a remotely pear-shaped geoid. Yet still...
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Droid803 on June 28, 2008, 11:24:49 am
That's nowhere near as different as a box and a dome, though.
I guess its an archaic naming convention from when skyboxes really were giant textured boxes.
Title: Re: Looking for a skydome
Post by: Warp Shadow on June 28, 2008, 07:23:54 pm
I think you can find one in Toronto, ON.


Skyboxes are a different matter.

I'm afraid you're mistaken. Skydome? What Skydome?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/RogersCentre_Toronto_Sept1-05.jpg

Ah, poor saskplace.... why do they keep changing it?
       Yeah, it's ****ing lame.
       In my hometown we had "Saskatchewan Place" for the local arena, now it's called "Teacher's Credit Union Place" or something like that. People just call it the "T-Cup" now. Why people have to put their lousy brand name all over an arena while erasing a name which actually matters is beyond me. Just call it Roger's Skydome. Whatever. Keep the original name though.

        But anyway . . . skyboxes are cool!