MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info

[Thothie]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox names & images

Hmmm... Ya know, a lot of these skys seem to be neither from MSC nor from the base Valve set, and thus would not work. Lest ye can link me up to this file that has all these skys and I can stuff another 80mb or whatever into the next installer.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox names & images

EDIT: DOWNLOAD LINK IN FIRST POST!

a lot of these skys seem to be neither from MSC nor from the base Valve set

In fact, almost all of them are neither from MS: C or from the base Valve set:

Almost every single one of the new 24 skyboxes is from a pack Crow once posted, which you are actually hosting right now.
thothie.com/public/MSCrow/skymaps.rar
However, I must request you stop hosting 'skymaps.rar', because:
1) Skybox 'spree' is included, which is a garbage skybox (if you saw it in-game you'd instantly agree with me).
2) Two of the included skyboxes have 'dn' images that were incorrectly rotated (I fixed that).
3) It contains a total of 92 JPG files, 78 BMP files and 12 PCX files, bulking the filesize of the archive.
4) It contains 'LMmnts_1', which is already included in the standard MS: C installer (see below).
5) All the skyboxes are in separate folders, making it impossible to easily 'install' them.
6) 'snow', 'snowcliff_', 'nm_snowcliff_' and 'city1' are not included.
7) My skybox data images aren't included.

MS: C v1.00 installer
	ax_darkclouds_
	castle_m
	cavern
	g_morning
	grnplsnt
	LMmnts_1
	nature1
	space
	sunset02
	volare

World Walker One
	fullmoon
	green

The Frozen Summit
	snow

Nightmare: Thornlands
	nm_snowcliff_

Outer Lodagond
	winter

Not included anywhere (yet)
	arcd
	arcn
	blyysky
	city1
	cx
	damager
	dashnight256_
	dawng
	desdusk
	desert1
	desert2
	forest
	frozen_
	frozendusk_
	ghetto
	jungle
	morningdew
	nitaly
	null_hill256_
	null_lake256_
	riverscape1
	snowcliff_
	tornsky
	tropical
	xt_deheat

 

[Thothie]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info + download link

Well, get me a link of something better to replace it with, and I'll axe it.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info + download link

Thothie? Please replace skymaps.rar with this.

 

[kai]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info + download link

The sky boxes in this game are really beautiful.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info + download link

Only ten of the 40 skyboxes in the first post actually come standard with this game

 

[Thothie]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info + download link

Thothie? Please replace skymaps.rar with this.

I can't seem to find this skymaps.rar I'm apparently hosting. >_> Can ye link me?

Only ten of the 40 skyboxes in the first post actually come standard with this game

There's another dozen or so in the Valve folder you can use at will.

 

[Crow]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info + download link

Thothie? Please replace skymaps.rar with this.

I can't seem to find this skymaps.rar I'm apparently hosting. >_> Can ye link me?

thothie.com/public/MSCrow/skymaps.rar

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info + download link

Ah, I see you stopped hosting the (slightly outdated and bulky) skymaps.rar, Thothie. Good
Are you hosting my pack, by the way? If so, could you toss me a link so I can put it in the first post?

 

[Thothie]

Re: MasterSword: Continued mapping - Skybox info + download link

I r considering adding it to the next full installer if it doesn't bloat it too much (depends on how well those TGA's compress).

I didn't have any links to Crow's Skymaps.rar, and I wasn't the one who uploaded it, so I couldn't find the bloody thing right off. >_>

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Thanks to Thothie, all of the 40 skyboxes listed in the first post are now in the betapack! That's 30 new skyboxes for all you mappers! The download link to the skybox archive has been removed, because every skybox you'll ever need (hopefully >_>) is in the betapack.

 

[Thothie]

Isleofdread2 isn't either. <_<

 

[Thothie]

gah, could you possibly send me the night tropical one then?

Eh, I dunno how you got ahold of another one. This is the one from the MSC 1.11 installer, matches the one in the top post:
http://www.thothie.com/msc_dev3/tropical.rar

 

[Venge]

So I have just recently started playing again and making some maps. I made an island coast map and was trying to use the tropical2 sky but for some reason I only have tropical2rt pic it in my msc\gfx\env folder. Needless to say the sky didn't quite look right. I recently downloaded the newest installer and update, so mabey someone forgot to include the rest of that skybox in the installer. Then again my computer sometimes eats files I think. lol

 

[Thothie]

http://www.thothie.com/msc_dev3/tropical.rar

Yer the second person to report this (see above)... But it is quite clearly in the last install I downloaded so... :\ There must be a bunk installer going around. Make sure you get yer installers from the official source.

 

[Dridmar]

Since the Wadfather is long gone does anyone know of a good site for skyboxes? I need a skybox which makes people think of hell. Blood red sky and mountains!

 

[Crow]

Put a red filter on thothies nightmare thornlands skybox and add some blood splatters and fire XD


Woo! Didnt read the date, don't I feel dumb.

 

[jon50559]

VERY useful thread J-M! Personally I used the 'tornsky' one, great info!

 

[Srgnt Rehab]

On the topic of skyboxes (sorry if this seems a little out of the blue) I'm wondering if it is possible to have multiple skies in one map.

Example: In the beginning of the map the sky sunny and beautiful. Then you spend the majority of the map in a cave and when you exit the cave at the end of the map, the sky is a night time setting.

This is merely cosmetic and unnecessary, but I'd like it a lot if this were possible.

 

[Jelly]

You could make a texture of the skybox you want, and then add a low blue-ish light to get the desired effect. Granted that is faking it.

 

[Thothie]

There's the faking it option... There's no other way to do it from the map side. It *may* be possible from the script side. I do believe there is a script function for swapping out the sky texture, but I'm not sure if it actually works. Fog can also be used to cause the sky to go black (or some other color). Save for faking it, however, there's no way to make the sky texture vary from place to place, at best, ye might be able to change it globally, on the script side.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Just a heads-up: Skybox "tropical2" is missing. I did notice a new skybox named "black" and I think I can guess what it looks like. I might add it to the list someday.

 

[cartman-2000]

If someone can find the correct one, i can set my server to dl that skybox on islesofdread1(until it's added in an update.).

 

[Thothie]

I still dun have it.

 

[Crow]

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