Know how to do this? - Background for map with large texture

[morrowind]

Hello!

I was over at /r/quake and found a link to something that got me very interested. Does anyone know how to create the effects that this video
has for it's mountain range perimeter?

Or is it just a lot of vertex manipulation?

I ask because I'm working on a map right now (city) and it would be great to slap a massive custom texture background with buildings.

It looks like it's a huge block that was vertex editing at the top for the points and curvature, and then a huge texture applied to it.

The example is about 0:55-1:10 into the video.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThOMMiITtEs]Explore or Die by Speedy - Quake Single Player - YouTube[/ame]

Thanks!

[wicked_lord]

Wish i could assist but im clueless

[morrowind]

Haha thanks anyway =)

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Thats a custom skybox !

[morrowind]

Sweet thanks!

[MadGypsy]

looks like it's just a skybox to me.

make a id1/gfx/env folder
find a skybox
(lets pretend it was named "snowfield") - rename each image respectively and place them in the id1/gfx/env folder
snowfieldup
snowfielddn
snowfieldlf
snowfieldrt
snowfieldft
snowfieldbk

then draw a huge box around your map, hollow it out and give it any quake sky texture.
finally in worldspawn add -

key:sky
value: snowfield

[morrowind]

Great thanks for the info!

I wasn't aware of worldspawn and .MAP editing. Awesome!

[MadGypsy]

you can do it in an ent file too.

press "~" and type sv_saveentfile (darkplaces only i believe)
then open it and in the worldspawn block add

"sky" "snowfield"

you still need to make a big box around your map and give it a regular quake sky texture. This method would be good for testing an assortment of skyboxes quickly. You can simply edit the .ent and refresh darkplaces, instead of compiling your map a zillion times to test each one.

EDIT: Woah, screw that .ent way. darkplaces has a cvar for loading sky quickly

loadsky : load a skybox by basename (for example loadsky mtnsun_ loads mtnsun_ft.tga and so on)

[morrowind]

Ok great!

I'm not using darkplaces but will try it out sometime in the future.
I like vanilla quake (and it's what everyone uses at our LAN parties).

I may script up a package to auto install DP to accommodate everyone's installation at the next party though.. Yea that engine looks awesome now that
I'm reading more on it =)

Thanks!

[MadGypsy]

you don't have to install DP. It's standalone/portable.

[MH]

Vanilla Quake won't do skyboxes though.

[morrowind]

But I made a skybox (block with sky texture surrounding the world) with my version of WinQuake and Worldcraft 3.3.

But I haven't attempted modding the sky yet.

Is there something I'm missing?

[morrowind]

Well I just copied over DP.. wow.

Now I can do some high res textures.. JOY.

[MadGypsy]

I wrote a tutorial on this today. I even packaged up 4 properly named skyboxes for download. I pretty much just rewrote what I already wrote here, but it is a little more organized and when you add the download it gives you a "physical" example of how everything should be named/set-up. I'm actually about to go edit it again and make it as simple/clear/organized as possible

click

Michael