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Hi. I've been wondering how to put the sky from space into a land map. I'm not sure how to make the sky an all-around thing that looks like it came from the space map but does anybody know how to do this? Thanks.

You could try using the space skydome on your map.

Space maps don't have skydomes.

Yep, they do. Every sky has to have a skydome mesh onto which the texture is projected. Open up any sky file in BF2_ModTools\space_template\Worlds\@#$\sky and look at where it says "DomeModel".

This has been said many times before, but for anyone who hasn't heard - there is virtually no difference between space and land maps. Space skydomes are set up slightly differently by default, but they function essentially in the same manner as skydomes for land maps.

So.... how do I get the part under the map to look like it is space?

You would have to use a sky dome MSH that is a sphere (like the stock space sky dome) and toggle in-game terrain to off. Settings are under the Terrain button (upper right corner area) in ZE.

Is turning the terrain off necessary?

Didn't you just ask:

linksith wrote:So.... how do I get the part under the map to look like it is space?

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I don't know what it is that you are trying to do. If turning off the terrain is not necessary, then don't do it.

I want the terrain on it's just you said to turn the terrain off and I wanted to know if it was necessary.

Copy all the sky file you want from the space template and shove them into your world folder. I think you need the reqs too (I load them anyway)

This always works hands-down, but as far as eliminating ground? Why don't you just click 'new terrain' and then set its size to like 1x1 square and leave it like that. Or maybe you could make a space map and just edit the addme and the luas and the layers to be conquest! Done deal!

AQT wrote:You would have to use a sky dome MSH that is a sphere (like the stock space sky dome)

Excuse me for my inability to think very well but where is the space sky dome located?

Mr. Crayon wrote:Copy all the sky file you want from the space template and shove them into your world folder. I think you need the reqs too (I load them anyway)

This always works hands-down, but as far as eliminating ground? Why don't you just click 'new terrain' and then set its size to like 1x1 square and leave it like that. Or maybe you could make a space map and just edit the addme and the luas and the layers to be conquest! Done deal!

I'll have to try that again sometime because it didn't work the first time I tried it.

The space skydome is called spa1_sky.msh and it is located in the BF2_ModTools\space_template\Worlds\@#$\msh folder.

Thanks for pointing out the location of the mesh, but it isn't working. I added it to the sky file but only half of the sky looked like space. Here is my current LUA...

MrCrayon wrote:Copy all the sky file you want from the space template and shove them into your world folder. I think you need the reqs too (I load them anyway)

This always works hands-down

By the way, have you or anyone else done this before?

might wanna post your sky file too

Oh, I didn't think of doing that. Here it is...

you try a clean my skies dont usually show up till i do a clean ?

acryptozoo wrote:you try a clean my skies dont usually show up till i do a clean ?

That's probably because you're just copy+pasting a stock sky and renaming; the time stamp won't update unless you open and resave the file. You can open the sky file and resave it if you want it to munge the file the first time without any clean.

or you can go to the _BUILD\Worlds\XXX\MUNGED\PC-folder and delete the files with the name of the sky there.
ou can do this with any texture/model/odf if you dont want to clean everything.

Cleaning didn't work.