3 new skies
 

Here are some new sky renders from me.

http://thefuture.dk/sky/desert_sun.jpg

http://thefuture.dk/sky/winter_sun.jpg

http://thefuture.dk/sky/summer_sun.jpg

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Deadly !
Keep it up duder !
Any chance you feel like doing a small city skyline ?
(As in ... no really tall buildings, just medium sized ... like 10 stories high in some places.)
If you think you can do it, that'd be sweet !

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how in the world do you do that ????????

i could make space ones using photoshop but no that kind of stuff

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Impressive indeed!

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Terragen.

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is it that easy????????

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Zacker's been working on skies for almost a year now.
These are much better than his 1st batch.
I think it's not that easy, but probably not that hard.
What says you, Zacker ?
Maybe he's busy, making me a sky ... right now ?!?
LOLZ !

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Sorry, but I dont think I am capable of doing a cityscape.
I have used Terragen and a slight bit of PS colour adjusting for the skies.

Making skies are not really that hard. Its just as easy as mapping:)

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OK ... no city then ... how about a sky, colored & clouds like this one, but without the hills & trees.
Could you do it ?
It would be much appreciated.
http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/CSlite2.jpg

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Hi Carp! I just browsed through the skyboxes I have on my HD, and I found two that might look nice on your kick-ass map. One's a city, one isn't.

The first set (altstadt2k**.tga) came with the map de_altstadt2k by DeadManiac. You can contact him at: DeadManiac [at] gmx.de
The second set (city_day**.tga) came with a really new map, de_builder_yard. It's by Syrus: mappeur_syrus [at] yahoo.fr
His HP is here: www.soremaps.be.tf .
If you contact them, they may help you out... or don't you mappers work together at all? :D

(I don't wanna post anybody's mail addy "openly" here without prior consent of their owners, that's why I "disguised" them a little.)

Well, give these 2 skies a shot and try if you like them. The one displayed in your last reply looks a tad TOO brownish for my taste, btw.

Shit, I can't upload for some reason. Tried 2 times, and it failed. :'( Well, maybe you can check out the maps (they're both good!) and see for yourself. Sorry about that...

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Cheers !
I'll go looky.
*edit*
Naw ... didn't like that one ... a bit too grey for my liking.
Any other suggestions ?
Where's that Zacker ?
LOLZ

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lol, so we do seem to have different tastes, huh? :D

Well, of course I've never seen your map with any of the 2 skies I meant, so I can't really judge what it looks like.

Maybe you could fire up Photoshop and "brownify" one of them, though?

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oh NOOO carp! 8o
that sky doesn't fit with the rest of your map at all!
the map is WAY too bright and the sprites are WAY too green for that!
that would look like as if a winter weather just came over a spring/summer vegetation!
I preferred the blue one much better, I liked the "california school for the rich" side of it...

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Yeah ... i hear ya !
I need something a little less blue though.
Something summery, but more "arid" than "wet".
A little more yellowy that the old blue one, for sure.
Maybe.

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then make a deeper blue, instead of adding yellow.

The higher you get in the blue, the hotter it looks
If you wanted to make a warm & wet weather, you'd go deeper into the white instead

well, IMHO :)

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Sure Carpenter, I will try to make a such one.

Edit:
Here is the result:
http://thefuture.dk/1/carp_sky.png

I would like some info about how you would like your sun, lighting, terrain, cloudscape and athmosphere.

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I reverted to the old flfsky9 for now.
That's pretty cool looking, Zacker !

I would want a really flat landscape though, so that you could only see sky above the school walls everywhere.

The blue should be like the light blue in the top left corner of this picture.

The sun position should be the same as this too (in the ft position).

I think the clouds should be slightly more yellow than white.

http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/flfsky9ft.jpg

Cheers duder !!!

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Take a look at the new one, it should be better. I changed the pic in my previous post.

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Looks much better !
The cloud color is PERFECT !
The sun seems WAY too big to me though.
Could you make it about 1/8th as big as it is now, & just partially obscurred by cloud cover ?
(Like the edge of a cloud is just touching it.)
The blue should be more pale too, possibly done by adding more fogginess ?
(I forget the proper terragen term for it.)
Also ... I think a prarie landscape would be better suited to the school setting.
The mountains would look weird, looking out the windows.

Cheers duder !
You rock !

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New one:
http://thefuture.dk/1/carp_sky2.png

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Very nice ... but the sky got darker blue this time & the clouds are a different color.
The clouds go over the sun exactly like I had imagined they should !

Is it possible to keep the same pattern of clouds but change their color back to the yellow shades ?
Also ... the ground still needs to be smoother & the sky more pale ... like so:
http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/flfsky9ft.jpg
Cheers !

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I ... LOVE IT !!!
You are the man !
Now ... if you'll excuse me for this ...
GIMME, GIMME, GIMME !!!
:D :D :D

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*gasp* Does this mean we'll finally see cs_normandin? :D

You sure are picky as hell, Carp... but judging from the screenies you posted from that map, this has some advantages... 9_9

Now excuse me if I drool... nor-man-din! nor-man-din! C'me ooon... ;)

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Once I get the sky, I'll have to do the windows over ... & I still need waypoints, but shortly after that she'll be ready !

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Done. It is packaged as completely raw bmp 512*512 bmp. I have upped the contrast slightly on the old images I showed here, but not on the packed images though. The position letters have been checkeed, so they should be fine.

www.thefuture.dk/1/normandin.zip
Remember to save them as 256*256*32bpp TGA.

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1,000,000 thanks to you, Sir Zacker !!!
I'm all over this shit !!!
:D :D :D

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I am glad I could help!

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Here is the final one in the right formats and sizes. Contains both the sizes for newer games like Q3 and for older games like HL.

www.thefuture.dk/sky/prarie.zip

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The 1st one you gave me didn't line up, just for the record.
I'm not sure if you changed this version or not, but I had to jigsaw puzzle the last version together.
Cheers !

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Ohh, it did not? I am sorry. I checked them out in MsPaint and they fitted together nicely there if I placed them as the name said.

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hehe ... no worries
It didn't really take that long to fix. ;)

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Here's what I did to make them fit properly.
The original is the bigger image & the little one in the corner as it is in a working state.
UP
http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/normandin_up.jpg
DOWN
http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/normandin_dn.jpg
LEFT
http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/normandin_lf.jpg
RIGHT
http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/normandin_rt.jpg
FRONT
http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/normandin_ft.jpg
BACK
http://www.accesscomm.ca/users/endo/normandin_bk.jpg

Just change your names to the little versions & rotate accordingly.
Cheers !

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OMG, how did you work out all that renaming and rotating??? Thanks a lot for that!

I really need to get someone to teach me how to render theese skies at the right angles and how to name them.

The file at my server will be replaced in a matter of seconds.

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pierre rules no matter what he does.......wonder what women think of him?

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this seems out of place some how... ???:(

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ROFL wtf is that ? I think SoUlFaThEr got lost :D

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Or is he simply staying lost. :D

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well at this point we know that ...

A. carp has settled on a new custom sky for his "long awaited" map ???

B. soulfather has been so wrapped up with stuff that he only remebers to posts days after the "oringal" post(s) was thought up ??? ( plz tim correct me if im wrong ! )

C. zacker should continue to keep on keepin on ???

D. so much for straight up answers... i guess all the beer is making me ask more questions than i could even answer...

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SoUlFaThEr got lost? NEVER!
http://forums.nuclearbox.com/showthr...threadid=19507

Check latest post.
http://forums.nuclearbox.com/showthr...threadid=19023