Yea, No offense, but I don't like the sky either..

Super_Clone wrote:Yea, No offense, but I don't like the sky either..

No problem. Since you guys don't seem to like the sky, I blured it up a bit like it was originally. I still kept the blue glare though, because I thought it looks cool.
Here is a pic of the heli with the new sky:

Does this look any better or is the other one better?

The new one is 1OO% better

Why not put in a real sun instead of trying to texture it on to the sky dome?

Xavious wrote:Why not put in a real sun instead of trying to texture it on to the sky dome?

Because A. I don't neccessarily want a sun since it is nighttime B. I don't think I can make the sun blue C. It would take me about a thousand tries before I got the placing right.

elfie wrote:

Xavious wrote:Why not put in a real sun instead of trying to texture it on to the sky dome?

Because A. I don't neccessarily want a sun since it is nighttime B. I don't think I can make the sun blue C. It would take me about a thousand tries before I got the placing right.

If you don't want a sun, then what is that blue thing in the sky supposed to be? Also, you can in fact change the color of a sun.

Perhaps a moon would suit better? You could reskin the Yavin planet sky object. I really think the blue thing looks silly, whatever it is meant to be.

Xavious wrote:

elfie wrote:

Xavious wrote:Why not put in a real sun instead of trying to texture it on to the sky dome?

Because A. I don't neccessarily want a sun since it is nighttime B. I don't think I can make the sun blue C. It would take me about a thousand tries before I got the placing right.

If you don't want a sun, then what is that blue thing in the sky supposed to be? Also, you can in fact change the color of a sun.

Perhaps a moon would suit better? You could reskin the Yavin planet sky object. I really think the blue thing looks silly, whatever it is meant to be.

Do I add the Yavin planet sky object in through the sky file or do I have to manually place it in the sky dome texture? I still personally think the blue thing looks pretty sweet. Perhaps it could be a solar eclipse or a really bright star? You see those at night.

elfie wrote:

Xavious wrote:

elfie wrote:

Xavious wrote:Why not put in a real sun instead of trying to texture it on to the sky dome?

Because A. I don't neccessarily want a sun since it is nighttime B. I don't think I can make the sun blue C. It would take me about a thousand tries before I got the placing right.

If you don't want a sun, then what is that blue thing in the sky supposed to be? Also, you can in fact change the color of a sun.

Perhaps a moon would suit better? You could reskin the Yavin planet sky object. I really think the blue thing looks silly, whatever it is meant to be.

Do I add the Yavin planet sky object in through the sky file or do I have to manually place it in the sky dome texture? I still personally think the blue thing looks pretty sweet. Perhaps it could be a solar eclipse or a really bright star? You see those at night.

You add it through the sky file as a sky object.

Of course, it is your map, so you are free to do as you wish. I was merely providing my personal opinion.

Xavious wrote:

elfie wrote:

Xavious wrote:

elfie wrote:

Xavious wrote:Why not put in a real sun instead of trying to texture it on to the sky dome?

Because A. I don't neccessarily want a sun since it is nighttime B. I don't think I can make the sun blue C. It would take me about a thousand tries before I got the placing right.

If you don't want a sun, then what is that blue thing in the sky supposed to be? Also, you can in fact change the color of a sun.

Perhaps a moon would suit better? You could reskin the Yavin planet sky object. I really think the blue thing looks silly, whatever it is meant to be.

Do I add the Yavin planet sky object in through the sky file or do I have to manually place it in the sky dome texture? I still personally think the blue thing looks pretty sweet. Perhaps it could be a solar eclipse or a really bright star? You see those at night.

You add it through the sky file as a sky object.

Of course, it is your map, so you are free to do as you wish. I was merely providing my personal opinion.

Okay thanks, I'll investigate both and see which I like more. One last thing: Is the sky object automatically going to be placed in the center of the sky or do I control the coordinates in the file?

I like the new sky texture, but you might want to darken it a little bit so that it looks more like a night time sky.

The blue light is cool, I agree with you Elfie, but it's not very realistic and the setting of your map is supposed to be at least kinda realistic.

Overal the sky is better, nice job.

love the sky again, one hundred percent better. Also Xavious has a good idea about putting a moon, I think the blue thing looks cool but I'm not sure what it is. Still it is your map.

Par3210 wrote:love the sky again, one hundred percent better. Also Xavious has a good idea about putting a moon, I think the blue thing looks cool but I'm not sure what it is. Still it is your map.

I thought so too. So I put in a moon and I think it looks a lot better and realistic: You guys agree? Btw, once I finish solving this sky thing, I'm going to finalize the credits and then the map will be released.

very nice well done

That's no moon! That's a gigantic cookie!

You are aiming for a realistic Earth, right? Because the moon isn't really that big, nor is it lumpy like that. It looks like a giant, shiny, chocolate chip cookie. (Or is it cookiee? Gosh dangit George Lucas, you've got me all screwed up )

Xavious wrote:That's no moon! That's a gigantic cookie!

You are aiming for a realistic Earth, right? Because the moon isn't really that big, nor is it lumpy like that. It looks like a giant, shiny, chocolate chip cookie. (Or is it cookiee? Gosh dangit George Lucas, you've got me all screwed up )

Yeah, its kinda like:
"Hello moon WOAH IN MY FACE!"
in other news, heavy meteor showers will happen around 7 tonight and continue until the moon crashes into the earth.

I say scale down the moon, and make it look less like a cookiee.

Or to make it fit in with it's size, give evil looking eyes and animate it so that it slowly crashes on the city.(Try to figure that one out! )

looks good

why not reskin the Tatooine sky? it will look like a more realistic moon in place of the sun.

The sun is part of the .fx file not the sky texture.