Skybox

Skyboxes replace the normal scenery of BZFlag.

The material names needed to create a skybox are:

Material Name:

LeftSkyboxMaterial

RightSkyboxMaterial

TopSkyboxMaterial

BottomSkyboxMaterial

FrontSkyboxMaterial

BackSkyboxMaterial

Working with Skyboxes.

Unless all six images load correctly, no skybox will be displayed. For this reason it is recommended to start with a working skybox, and change one texture at a time, testing each image one at a time. Colors are applied to this test world to assist in identifying left/right and front/back materials. Image size will be automatically scaled to fit. Maximum default image size for clients is 1024 by 1024 pixels. Power-of-two pixel dimensions are recommended, but not required. You will notice a thin black line in the corners, this is a bug. This thin black line is not seen on GNU/Linux. It may only be on Mac OSX.

It is important to have 6 _different_ materials. Even if they all should look the same make them differ using for example the ambient or shader properties.

Code

world name SkyboxMaterialTest size 230 end options -set _drawCelestial 0 -set _drawClouds 0 -set _drawGround 1 -set _drawGroundLights 0 -set _drawMountains 0 -set _wallHeight 0 end # For reference, Include the other two "Magic" Material names. # TeleMaterial will be available in BZFlag version 3.0 # teleporter texture material name LinkMaterial addtexture http://cbg.bzflag.org/images/Panzer/borg/blackholes/nebula4.PNG end # -set _drawGround 0 will disable the GroundMaterial material name GroundMaterial addtexture http://cbg.bzflag.org/images/Panzer/borg/blackholes/nebula4.PNG end #Space Skybox material name skyboxBase color 1 1 .99999999 end material name LeftSkyboxMaterial matref skyboxBase texture http://images.bzflag.org/llegendary/Optic%20Delusion_skybox1.png diffuse red end material name FrontSkyboxMaterial matref skyboxBase texture http://images.bzflag.org/llegendary/Optic%20Delusion_skybox2.png diffuse yellow end material name RightSkyboxMaterial matref skyboxBase texture http://images.bzflag.org/llegendary/Optic%20Delusion_skybox4.png diffuse green end material name BackSkyboxMaterial matref skyboxBase texture http://images.bzflag.org/llegendary/Optic%20Delusion_skybox5.png diffuse blue end material name TopSkyboxMaterial matref skyboxBase texture http://images.bzflag.org/llegendary/Optic%20Delusion_skybox3.png diffuse purple end material name BottomSkyboxMaterial matref skyboxBase texture http://images.bzflag.org/llegendary/Optic%20Delusion_skybox6.png diffuse white end #End Space Skybox