need help with DP sky

[zaauriel]

Hello, first post

I cant seem to make the skies work with DarkPlaces and GTKRadiant

This is what i do:

1.- I download and extract darkplaces to my c: drive
2.- Copy my pack0.pak and pak1.pak into c:/darkplaces/id1
3.- run darkplaces, everything works ok
4.- i download a skybox and paste all 6 files to c:/darkplaces/id1/env
5.- start new game, open console and use the "loadsky skybox", and the sky changes to the skybox i downloaded ( so now i know it works)
6.- now i make 3 textures (tga 64x64) named floor, walls and sky and i put them in a folder under darplaces/id1/textures
7.- i open gtkradiant, choose darkplaces as the game and make a cube with my textures (floor for the floor, walls for the walls and the sky texture for the sky), i add a light and a player spawn
8.- i compile this map with the "final" settings and then i load the map in dark places

The result is that i end up in a room with the "sky" texture just like it looks on the gtkradiant screen (i mean, no sky)

can someone tell me what i did wrong? Quake 1 mapping tutorials are scarce and they only say to use a "sky texture" like in half life?

Also i downloaded one of those cloud (sky1, sky4)textures and they didnt work for me, they show exactly like they look on the editor

I use windows xp, gtkradiant 1.5 and darkplaces

Thanks for your help.

[MH]

Not too familiar with how DP works, but from a quick search through it's code it seems that you need two TGAs (or other supported image formats): one called sky_solidtexture.tga for the back layer and the other called sky_alphatexture.tga for the front layer.

[nahuel]

i do not know anything about gtkradiant, I use QUARK (it�s very easy i think). but i can give you some suggestions.
1- use a sky taken from the wad of pak0 or pak 1 (sky1 or sky4). These skys works very fine, if you want you can load a skybox from "worldspawn" very easy. Just add a specific named "sky" (the Arg is the name of the skybox)
2- if your map only will be for darkplaces support, use q3bsp. In quake 3 you can find a nice skyshader called "blacksky" to load after the skybox.

[Halm_Barte]

I use QUARK (it�s very easy i think).

Can you suggest a good
"'s guide to quark."

[zaauriel]

fixed it

I fixed it!

After the first compile gtkradiant created a "scripts" folder in id1 with a shaderlist.txt file (like in quake3 arena).
So after reading some quark tutorials i realized that i could use a Q3 sky shader so i copy/paste this one:

textures/skies/xsky
{
qer_editorimage textures/day1/sky.tga
surfaceparm noimpact
surfaceparm nolightmap
q3map_globaltexture
q3map_lightsubdivide 256
q3map_surfacelight 400
surfaceparm sky
q3map_sun 1 1 1 150 30 60
skyparms - 512 -
}

Deleted the cloud data since all i wanted was a working sky
I used this shader to texture my sky brushes, compile then run darkplaces, load my map and i can see a black sky with the sun lighting all over the room.
so now i use the "loadsky" console command and load my skybox and now it looks great! (for a cube)


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Thanks guys!

EDIT: ok, seems like all special textures have to be made with Q3 like shaders (slime, sky, animated, etc).

[nahuel]

Can you suggest a good
"'s guide to quark."

No.