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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Topgun on August 16, 2008, 08:49:51 pm

Title: how do you use sky boxes properly?
Post by: Topgun on August 16, 2008, 08:49:51 pm

do you make the sky box with stars then add the planets and nebula in fred or do you put everything on the sky box at once? if the later, how do you add planets and stuff without it getting distorted?

Title: Re: how do you use sky boxes properly?
Post by: Retsof on August 16, 2008, 10:04:12 pm

A skybox is usually used for a high-rez planet.  The stars are already in the "stars.pof" skybox.  You add nebulas and suns in FRED.

Title: Re: how do you use sky boxes properly?
Post by: Jake2447 on August 20, 2008, 11:09:37 pm

IIRC the star skybox is starfield.pof
another use of skyboxes is hi res planets, as retsof mentioned
an example of this is the earh skybox used in blue planet (named earthbox.pof)