Hello, I have a skycube that I display in the level. But I need to scale it (as it looks too big right now).

However, it seems that sky cubes ignore the scale_x, scale_y stuff, and I can't seem to find another way to scale the sky. I just want the sky to look farther away. If this was a sprite I would just scale it to half to get the look I want (crisper and smaller), but I don't know how to do that with a skycube.
I have tried searching the forum, using photoshop to scale the sky size, alter the clip_far, and moving the sky's.x/y/z.

I did find something in the example code of bmap_blit in the manual, with the label:
// create a scaled-down cubemap from the level sky cube

But I can't get that to work.


Right, thats my problem, and all that I have tried so far. Any expert out there know the answer?

Thanks,

Well, of course scale_x - scale_z are ignored. You can't scale down the sky as the sky is rendered in an infinite distance and therefore has always the same size. The example in the manual just scales down the sky in a sense of downsampling it. It is not possible to scale the sky at all.

Why do you intend to that? What do you expect from scaling the sky?

The art for the sky is drawn to be a certain dist away, ie: more of it should be displayed on the screen then is being done.

I just inverted a cube, skinned the inside with the cube map, and attached it to the camera.

Thanks,

could you pehaps use a model for your sky? I usually use half of a sphere with a code that allows the sky to follow the player so it looks like it never moves.

Just a thought since sky cubes arent as flexible for various things.

- Jason