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Posted: 13th Sep 2018 08:34 Edited at: 13th Sep 2018 08:35
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It's possible the following link has already been posted in the forums as I am usually late to every party .

The following link to QBIT, a SkyBox graphic files generator is worth a look. Very easy to use and has enabled me to make a number of SkyBoxes very quickly.

The product is for sale at $12 but the author gives it away totally free and in the hope that you may buy it out of the honesty of your heart. I thought this was called DonationWare.

https://pragmar.com/qbit/

Video at https://youtu.be/ePvqPE1KJDQ
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Posted: 13th Sep 2018 15:21
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Hi Ken excellent find thank you, this is now my preferred tool for High Quality skybox.
I have took the liberty of doing a side by side comparison with QBIT and the app on my website 'testq' is the QBIT generated PNG's and 'testg' is the cubemap generated PNG's so in this video the first skybox chosen was the one created with cubemap the second with QBIT and the difference is highly noticeable, the app on my website was just for cubemaps the skyboxes it creates are ok but it was not designed for that.

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Posted: 13th Sep 2018 16:57
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It wont install for me due to a conflict ?
Happy to buy this but need to sort this first
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Posted: 13th Sep 2018 17:01
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Quote: "It wont install for me due to a conflict ?"


it has installed fine on all my PC's whats it conflicting with ?
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Posted: 13th Sep 2018 18:08
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Sorted now … very strange .. Just rectified itself
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Posted: 13th Sep 2018 19:05
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Only runs on win10 64 bit op sys.
I will have to take it to another machine to try it out.
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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 01:14 Edited at: 14th Sep 2018 02:21
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Guys
I really miss something>
Why does my background only reflect the sky and not the terrain aswell. My images all cutoff at about 50%?

Is there a setting?

Looking at Graphix Link above, his view is full 360 x 360 degrees

F11, take away terrain,water. But when I test again, it's back. How to do it permanent,LUA?


Any advice?
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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 08:06
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These are the LUA commands you need:

HideTerrain() - stop the terrain drawing

ShowTerrain() - show the terrain again

HideWater() - stop water from being drawn

ShowWater() - show water again
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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 08:50 Edited at: 14th Sep 2018 08:54
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Thanks GraPhiX, appreciate

a Beginner question.
With the new background it all looks good, but thats about where it stopped, right?
I see none of my background/terrain move when I walk with my character. looks like the character is just standing at one place.
But when the terrain is ON, you can see the ground move.
Suggestions?

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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 09:00 Edited at: 14th Sep 2018 09:04
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there is a ready script in your scriptbank 'goindoors.lua' just place a triggerzone and apply that command to it, then place the startmarker on top.


the skybox is fixed it never moves so even though you are going forward its like walking on the spot, place either a floor or make your own terrain and walk on that I put a bridge from cityscape in this scene.

for it to work and show the full skybox you have to build a 'platform' level a bit like Avatar I suppose lol, in this scene below you could have some big trees with wooden platforms connecting them just don't allow the player to roam away from the set paths

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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 11:01 Edited at: 14th Sep 2018 11:59
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another example, this is an Ocean skybox, terrain off water on

I was rendering in Quixel when I recorded this I will do another one that does not stutter my Mac cannot cope with GG, Bandicam and Quixel at the same time
all fixed now

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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 11:10 Edited at: 14th Sep 2018 11:16
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Just to add: the skybox gives the illusion of a much larger environment, and moves with the player. So if you turn terrain off there is nothing to show that you are moving.

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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 11:56
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Woah, how did your video get removed for violating terms of service!??!?!?
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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 11:58 Edited at: 14th Sep 2018 12:02
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Quote: "Woah, how did your video get removed for violating terms of service!??!?!?"


HA HA HA it didn't I just deleted it uploading one that does not stutter, just uploaded the replacement above ^^
shaved off about 3 million polygons with terrain off
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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 12:12
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That's odd because the message i got when i tried to play it said it was quite specific, you shouldn't get that message if you delete it yourself lol, typical buggy youtube.
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As always, a life saver, thanks GraPhix, will test that...

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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 22:05
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OK GraPhiX I have made some Sky Boxes with QBit but next to yours they look pretty poor.

So how about you do one of your tuts on QBIT and how to set up a good sky box.

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Posted: 14th Sep 2018 23:04 Edited at: 14th Sep 2018 23:06
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Mine wasn't great either … seem to end up with 6 fishbowl effects ?
Not nice ones like the vid …
Is everyone adapting a GG skybox ?
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Posted: 15th Sep 2018 08:44
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I used the atmos one. Didn't look like a fishbowl. In fact looked OK in that respect. It's just that GraPhix's just looked great where as mine were sort of OK. I mean the one with the sea and the birds taling off ETC. HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT!
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Posted: 15th Sep 2018 08:50 Edited at: 15th Sep 2018 09:58
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I will do a step by step video and put it in my tuts thread as soon as I can
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Posted: 15th Sep 2018 10:35 Edited at: 15th Sep 2018 14:38
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Hi Guys

Playing around with GraPhix CubeMap Generator
https://www.graphix.org.uk/app/index.html

and my SkyMap GUI creator from GraPhix Cubemaps
http://www.leznadsoftware.co.za/gameguru/download_cubemgui.php
And for what it is worth.... Nothing wrong with GraPhix Cubemap generator compare to Qbit

Just a pitty you can really use this type of Skymap anywhere.. :-(
Anyone to create Flying Simulator Models/Lua Scripts... that can make things interesting....

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Posted: 15th Sep 2018 11:13
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here is a quick tutorial on Qbit https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/219897#msg2605656 hope it helps
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Awesome that was a great help thanks … I see where I went wrong
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Posted: 17th Sep 2018 18:17
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how did i miss these. I love these real life photo skyboxes. Some really interesting stuff could be made with these.
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