Hi all,

I have a few questions;

1)Is it possible to make a Skybox as a Sphere instead of a Skybox as a Cube with Gamestudio 3d (if that even exists)? I want to make a skybox for a space game and I recently played the space game Freelancer which has nice skyboxes. It looks though as it has a sphere skybox or something like that and not a cube skybox. An image is below;
http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr31/Azr4el/Freelancer/Kyushu.jpg
So my question is, what skybox type (cube, dome...) is best used if you want a similar skybox like e.g. the ones Freelancer uses?

2)I want to set the lightnig of the sun of the map to zero. So I went to Map Properties in WED and changed Sun value to 0 and the Ambient to 0 also. But for some reason the map wasn't pitch black (which I want it to be). There was still some light from above. There were no placed other lights and the ambient of the objects in the map were set to 0. How do I remove the sun/standard lightning from the map?

3)I have made a star for the map, and I have placed a light in middle of the star. The light does illuminate the objects in the map, but not the star. I have set the ambient of the star to 100 in WED, but that is still not enough. Is there a way that the light also illuminates the star or that I can increase the brightness of the star even more?

I hope that my English is understandable :P, Thanks for taking the time!

1) search "sky" in manual, it turns up
Entity.flags2 can be SKY,CUBE,DOME etc. each explained in their own pages.

2) search "sun" in manual, it turns up:
sun_light = 0; // no sun

3) set(my,LIGHT); to star model.

, it is possible to place a sky dome upside down? I tried changing the tilt but that doesn't work. And is it possible to place two sky domes (so you get a sphere)?

, thanks, that works perfect

, thanks that worked

instead of doing that, you can use a sphere model that covers the whole level.

when I create a very large sphere that covers the whole level, I can't see the sphere, here's my code:

[/code]
ENTITY* skySphere =
{
type = "SunInnerCore.mdl";
layer = 3;
scale_x = 25;
scale_y = 25;
scale_z = 25;
flags2 = SKY | SCENE | SHOW;
}
[code]

the SunInnerCore.mld is just for testing purposes.

Please help, thanks

Never mind actually, I will just go with the cube skybox.