Tons of Panoramic Sky Images

[theITfactor]

First off if this is in the wrong place, feel free to move it, Zerted recommended I post them in the assets board though

I found an awesome source for 360 degree panoramic high quality sky images
All you have to do is download the image and resize it (I use 1024 pixels by 512 pixels size via Adobe Photoshop CS3, with "Nearest Neighbor" resampling), save it as a .tga, open your ###.sky file and change the DomeModel bit to point to the correct image:

DomeModel()
{
Geometry("skynamehere");
}

Here is the site:
http://lfgrafix.com/grafix/C3DB-Skies/S ... sic-1.html
http://lfgrafix.com/grafix/C3DB-Skies/S ... sic-2.html
http://lfgrafix.com/grafix/C3DB-Skies/S ... ium-1.html
http://lfgrafix.com/grafix/C3DB-Skies/S ... iFi-1.html
http://lfgrafix.com/grafix/C3DB-Skies/S ... ent-1.html
and more on the site

Usage License:

Continuum3D Free Sky Maps
These images are intended to be mapped onto a sphere or dome.
You may use these images freely to create artwork and or animation.
You MAY NOT resell these images in anyway shape or form.
You MAY give these images away on your own site, so long as you credit this site and link back to us from the images on youe site.

[RepSharpshooter]

Thanks, these look great!

[AceMastermind]

Nice find, and they're already set up to fit the curvature of a dome.

[authraw]

Some of these are really great! I'll definitely find use for some of these.

[elfie]

Good work! These skies rock!!

[authraw]

For those of you who are like me and want to have all of them, I downloaded them all and stuck them in a zip archive for you here.

[wazmol]

Thanks theITfactor for these!

and thanks authraw for uploading these into one helpful zip!

[theITfactor]

For those of you who are like me and want to have all of them, I downloaded them all and stuck them in a zip archive for you here.

Thanks for putting them in a zip authraw

[carfanaticphil]

First off if this is in the wrong place, feel free to move it, Zerted recommended I post them in the assets board though

I found an awesome source for 360 degree panoramic high quality sky images
All you have to do is download the image and resize it (I use 1024 pixels by 512 pixels size via Adobe Photoshop CS3, with "Nearest Neighbor" resampling), save it as a .tga, open your ###.sky file and change the DomeModel bit to point to the correct image:

DomeModel()
{
Geometry("skynamehere");
}

Here is the site:
http://www.lfgrafix.com/grafix/Skies_Fr ... sic-1.html
http://www.lfgrafix.com/grafix/Skies_Fr ... sic-2.html
http://www.lfgrafix.com/grafix/Skies_Fr ... iFi-1.html
http://www.lfgrafix.com/grafix/Skies_Fr ... ium-1.html
and more on the site

Usage License:

Continuum3D Free Sky Maps
These images are intended to be mapped onto a sphere or dome.
You may use these images freely to create artwork and or animation.
You MAY NOT resell these images in anyway shape or form.
You MAY give these images away on your own site, so long as you credit this site and link back to us from the images on youe site.

I have a problem. I did what you said, i downloaded the skys. I opened the preferred one in gimp, made it 1024X512. I saved it as a .tga with RLE compression off. i put it in my ***/world1 folder. I opened the ***.sky and put the sky name in there. I munged and played, but when the map opened, the sky was completely black, and in water, the reflection of the above sky was some fuzzled-up, mixed-up colour Star Wars Battlefront 2 logo. So i tried again, this time changing the DomeInfo bit from sky_yavin2 to

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DomeInfo()
{
	Texture("iras-100um");

I munged again, and the same things happened again. what am i doing wrong

EDIT: sorry for the bump, but i need help on this

[AceMastermind]

http://www.gametoast.com/viewtopic.php?p=274365#p274365

[Silas]

nice find there dude. I'm sure the quality of maps, or at least their skies, will be bumped by this

[theITfactor]

@carfanaticphil

Try using a sky file from a premade map and just edit the line for the image file name

[theITfactor]

Sorry for the bump, but here is a new set they just released called "Environment." I've updated the old links too in the first post so they should work again.

http://lfgrafix.com/grafix/C3DB-Skies/S ... ent-1.html

[carfanaticphil]

thanks alot, this is so useful

[theultimat]

Awsome.

[G_M_StYlEr_M]

Awsome.

its nice but the skys are looking very unreal