Hey, so I've been fiddling with making a skybox, and I've been using Terragen 2 and everything seems to work quite nicely. My question is - As nice as the image looks, when used in the engine there seems to be a significant decrease in contrast making the whole sky look very grey. Are there any rendering options I can play with to change the way my skybox looks? It's also a little blurry but I think this is just a matter of resolution so I'm going to make a nicer one later

Edit: Pardon me, skycube.

Did you call the sky by some code lines like in the manual, or did you assign it in WED?

http://www.conitec.net/beta/asky_cube.htm

ENTITY* mountain_cube =
{
type = "mountains+6.tga";
flags2 = SKY | CUBE | SHOW;
layer = 2;
z = 30; // move 30 pixels upwards
}

Ah, great - I had assigned it in WED but I prefer doing it by code so this works. Any ideas on how I can improve the loss of contrast this way?

Just made a test with this:


ENTITY* mountain_cube =
{
type = "skycube+6.dds";
flags2 = SKY | CUBE | SHOW;
}
function main()
{
level_load("");
}

There is no loss of contrast, but the pixels are interpolated - like any texture pixel in the engine.

Well that's no surprise about the interpolation, but I guess my question would be do I have the ability to modify rendering options for the sky?

use the red, green and blue parameters of the sky entity and/or attach the mat_unlit material to it.