WITH GREAT NORMAL MAPS AND SKYBOXYNESS AND FIRING OF LAZORS I HUMBLY PRESENT TO THEE
ASTEROIDS
Now, obviously a skybox would be preferable to a bunch of background bitmaps- in fact, with the background and the rocks I probably have >100 bitmaps in that mission. However, I dunno how to generate a skybox based on the background bitmaps in a mission. There's still some tweaking still to do to get them to blend in with the ingame 'roids (lighting for one thing
), but these will be passable for the time being.
At least I now feel like I'm in a large asteroid belt instead of some little patch where moving rocks are inexplicably gathered together by some as yet unknown phenomenon known as "gameplay".
[EDIT] one of the asteroid bmps (the half-lit one) has been updated to look less stupid.