[GlaD-slackin]

Is it possible to make a sky box from a set of photos from surounding area? If possible, how? If not possible, what would you recommend?

[žalost (old)]

Yes, but terragen is easier. http://cgtextures.com has a nice selection of skybox pics that can be used.

What you do is tile it like a cube map and work out the seams, then break it up in seperate images

[GlaD-slackin]

ty keres, null told me about it in irc at the same time i posted this thread, but i lost the link cause i was at work and someone rebooted my computer at home so i lost the xchat convo with it in it. ty keres!

[|it|Nexu]

Nice site, tho i'm not a mapper. There are some pretty pictures on there

[Delirium]

http://developer.val...ybox_-_Advanced

^ could help ya

[GlaD-slackin]

Ill check that out when I get home, thankz D!

[/eVo/CRIMENY]

What is the color depth for skybox?  16bit or 8?  I know I can blame my monitor for not dithering it properly, but I don't see color banding with 24bit coloring.  Is it possible for ioq3 to support 24bit?

[NulL]

what? Quake 3 supported 24bit colours on all its textures out of the box.

[GlaD-slackin]

I was gonna say, I could swear it does 16/32 for the textures and rendering engine?!

[/eVo/CRIMENY]

Hmm...with the animated skyboxes I see in q3, there's always been color banding for me, even before I used an LCD and had nice CRTs.  The skyboxes in UrT haven't really popped out for me and don't look very detailed, so I'm guessing they're low color as well if the engine supports higher than 16.