Sky Box

In my procrastination from working on my uni stuff I put this together skybox thing. I thought it could be cool to use if you made a game where you wanted the background to be spining around (like you were on a space ship or something) but the effect didn't come out as good as I had hoped I used the textures from here http://www.scentednectar.com/skyboxes/page1.htm

Edit:

Download 'muchbetter'. I forgot that skyboxes only work when rendered from the centre, and the 3dbox wasn't moved along the z axis. Also I changed the graphics to the ones used in Irrlicht...its also open source so they shouldnt mind me using that cool skybox texture. I am now happy with the effect

lol David, 2D man ... 2D!

Looks good for what it is. Can tell it's box shape, but still effective ...

I'll just stop there ... must ... resist ...

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That's pretty neat.

I made a minor change to the .cap (click and drag the mouse around):

http://www.fileshack.us/get_file.php?id ... kybox2.cap

Yeah I tried using the textures from the skybox in irrlicht and it still looks like a cube...while the cube in irrlicht doesn't look like a cube :S I noticed when you make the box larger the perspective changes a little ... and it kinda reaches a maximium slope...but then it reaches the far plane and vanishes heh...might read over the cvs repository for irrlicht

Redownload the file guys i made it better! it no longer looks like a cube

Man that is awesome!

Awesome o.O O.o

Good, gut, dobre, bona and in other langs

"muchbetter" indeed

Try putting on motion blur, and it looks so very smooth

Awsome!

Man, that looks really awesome.

wow, i would totaly need that for the FPP parts of my game. if i would know how to execute this that is

still - awesome effect

I'd like to use this as a backdrop effect for a platformer game, but I don't quite understand all the events. Could you maybe explain or comment it?

<img src="http://i53.tinypic.com/2h35xk8.png">

Y is up/down. X is left/right. Z is front/back.

Yaw: rotation around the Y axis - spinning like a top

Pitch: rotation around the X axis - spinning forward/backward

Roll: rotation around the Z axis - spinning side to side

Set yaw to 0 - mousex / 4:[/code:zaizl332]
Sets the angle along the Y axis to mousex (the actual position of the mouse, in pixels).  Divided by 4 so it doesn't spin too fast.  The "0 -" part inverts the angle so that it spins in the direction of the mouse movement, remove the "0 -" to invert the mouse movement.

[code:zaizl332]Set pitch to clamp(-90,(mousey - 240)/4 ,90)[/code:zaizl332]
Sets the angle along the X axis to mousey, minus the center of the screen.  Since the window is 480px tall, that would be 240.  Divided by 4 so it doesn't spin too fast.  The angle is also clamped between -90 degrees and 90 degrees so you can't look beyond "all the way up" and "all the way down," although David has made a small error in using clamp() here, and the proper expression should read clamp((mousey - 240)/4, -90, 90).  Adding "0 -" to the beginning of this would invert the mouse movement.

Hope this helps.

Thanks pal.

How does the thing work though? Like, why are there two boxes, and how does the script create the skybox effect?