Blender Tutorial - SkyBox

A tutorial on how to make a skybox for the game engine in blender. Please comment, rate, and subscribe. Check out my blog at http://cganim8or.blogspot.com/ Enjoy!

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• Sky
• Box
• game
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[grogmaninteractive]

What's the best way to make the sky for a 3d scene? Skybox, Textured Sphere or an HDRI Flat Background?

[cganim8or]

@grogmaninteractive Sky boxes are usually used for games, so either a textured sphere or an hdrI flat background should work.

[jimsanim8orstuff]

How did you make the image though, you never said.....and can this be made into a sky dome?

[cganim8or]

@jimsanim8orstuff I didn't make the image. I found it on a texture site. If you type in sky box texture in google you'll find quite a few textures.

This texture shouldn't be used for sky domes because you would have a problem mapping the circular UV's to this box texture.

[michael55443332211]

great tut everything worked, except when i press play the box just turns black

[cganim8or]

@michael55443332211 Do you mean when you render or when you press "p" to go into the game engine?

[jacobandyahudashow]

Great, but for the texture.. I've seen many diff types like the one u use, ones that are cut up into many pieces, but the one I'm interested in was the one where it's one loooonngg piece the a top and a bottom, how would u go bout UV mapping that?

[GertjanSluimer2]

thanks man, that help me alots

[hubatish]

@michael55443332211 If you just rendered the image (instead of pressing p) it will be all black cause there's no light source. If you press p (to play the game), Blender doesn't care about lighting, so it should work fine. If it doesn't, you might have forgotten to flip the normals.

[hubatish]

so I get how to make a sky box.... Now how do you actually put it around your game? Do you link this scene to the scene with the game somehow? & how do you do that? Cause right now it's just a camera sitting in a box with a sky texture.

[hubatish]

@michael55443332211 Probably you don't have a light source for the scene (at least that would be why when rendering). if you're pressed p like cganim8or says it shouldn't matter, but maybe you forgot to flip the normals?

[DillonHammons]

Would this same method work for a hemi-sphere?

[Cooldudeguy6]

A good tutorial, thanks for it, but at 0:32 it sounded like you said "Then Press N" I got confused for a bit.  But thanks!