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Duchenkuke
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Posted: 5th Aug 2020 09:16 Edited at: 5th Aug 2020 09:17
I have many skyboxes in my folder and none of them displays the moving clouds.
Is there something I am missing? I can't upload a skybox folder here because that would be against the rules.

Is there some sort of setting that disables it?

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Posted: 5th Aug 2020 10:01 Edited at: 5th Aug 2020 10:05
Hi Duchenkuke


First of all you need to name ALL your files the same, you should have:

Sunset_06_B.dds -----> your back
Sunset_06_D.dds -----> your down
Sunset_06_F.dds ----> your front
Sunset_06_L.dds -----> your left
Sunset_06_R.dds -----> your right
Sunset_06_U.dds -----> your up

Sunset_06_CLOUDS.dds

secondly the Sunset_06.x needs to be ASCII based all of the above textures need to be named in the X file except the Sunset_06_CLOUDS.dds do not reference that in the X file.

Thirdly the skyspec.txt needs to be called 'skyspec.txt' not the same convention as your texture names.

for moving clouds all that is required is the *_CLOUDS.dds and in the skyspec.txt add these lines:



I have attached a skybox i made a while ago with moving clouds use this as your template
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Posted: 5th Aug 2020 10:15 Edited at: 5th Aug 2020 10:16
Thanks for posting @GraPhiX

I loaded it in gg but still didnt see moving clouds...

I am very sure I am missing something...
maybe there was a setting somewhere in the effectbank folder that controls the clouds?

Here are the screenshots with settings:

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Posted: 5th Aug 2020 10:22 Edited at: 5th Aug 2020 10:23
if that is my sky look carefully one thing i did not do was colour the clouds correctly but you should see this:



if it is your sky don't forget to convert your jpg to DDS
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Posted: 5th Aug 2020 10:26
hmm strange.. yea your clouds are showing.. In my gameguru installation they dont work..
I remember it working a few months ago though. Very strange! Maybe something was changed in the effectbank folder. I will look into that.
Thanks for testing!
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Posted: 5th Aug 2020 10:27 Edited at: 5th Aug 2020 10:29
send me the sky you want moving clouds in via we transfer to [email protected] and i will look see what is wrong.

Backup and do a verify see if that cures it
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Posted: 5th Aug 2020 11:06
Cant do a verify... It would delete tons of custom media I created for my game.
I am sure it's a setting somewhere... Let me check that first
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Posted: 5th Aug 2020 11:33
ok sky_core.fx is the file you need to check
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