Source Skybox Texture Pack (403mb)

Stiffy360 · February 14, 2014 at 2:14 AM

Hello, my friend Mr. Chop made a large sum of skybox textures for use in the Source Engine. Since he is rather lazy, and didn't bother re-uploading his pack since I last downloaded it, I uploaded it to my dropbox with his permission to share with you all.

Here are a few sample skyboxes.

[Blocked Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58989379/sky_cloudyday-21.jpg]
[Blocked Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58989379/sky_dusk01_hdr.jpg]
[Blocked Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58989379/sky_fedora01_hdr.jpg]
[Blocked Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58989379/sky_gm_blue01_hdr.jpg]
[Blocked Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58989379/sky…set01_hdr-1.jpg]
[Blocked Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58989379/sky_lazyday01_hdr2.jpg]

These are completely free, and Mr. Chop/Colter is completely fine with you sticking it in an operation map.

Quote

8:43 PM - Stiffy360: are these copyright free?
8:44 PM - Stiffy360: so if I like made a map that got into a CS:GO operation
8:44 PM - Stiffy360: could I make money off of these?
8:44 PM - Stiffy360: and give you a cut ofc
8:45 PM - Colter: you're fine, they're free
8:45 PM - Colter: just credit me somewhere

Anyways here is the download (96mb)
Enjoy!

Please forgive me if this is in the wrong section, FMPONE suggested I share with you all as well, so if this needs to be moved please let me know.

Also let me know if the download link goes down as well and I will do my best to maintain it. Have fun!

FMPONE · February 14, 2014 at 2:19 AM

Thank you for posting these here

ShockaPop · February 14, 2014 at 5:04 AM

Oh, nice! Thanks for these.

Squad · February 15, 2014 at 12:20 AM

You don't come across a lot of decent skyboxes often, so it's always nice to have more to choose from

Thanks!

Stiffy360 · February 15, 2014 at 3:26 AM

No problem, I'm just sharing my friend's work.

Give all credit to him as he made the skyboxes.

spence · February 15, 2014 at 6:16 PM

Great share

The Horse Strangler · February 16, 2014 at 8:02 AM

Those are some killer skies. Nice job. You guys should make some skydome variations too. You might find those easier to paint as well.

Pampers · February 16, 2014 at 10:02 AM

something in another format than .vtf would have been great thanks anyway

Stiffy360 · February 16, 2014 at 2:18 PM

I can convert them all into tgas and 2D panoramas if you guys want. (as well as a model for it)

Would take some time though.

The Horse Strangler · February 17, 2014 at 5:56 AM

Yeah it would be nice to have the uncompressed tga's.

spence · March 27, 2014 at 4:32 PM

Bit of a bump but does anyone know if the CS:GO specification for HDR skies changed at all? I've been playing around with all of these and some of them work as HDR just fine while others just show the compressed HDR texture as it appears in the preview/when decompiled to tga (all pixelated, etc). I tried a bunch of tests and examined the VMTs between the skies that worked correctly, the ones that didn't, and the HDR skies that come with CSGO and they are all identical from what I could tell, so the only conclusion I could draw is that something changed in the VTF specification along the way?

Stiffy360 · April 1, 2014 at 4:08 PM

Quote from spence

Bit of a bump but does anyone know if the CS:GO specification for HDR skies changed at all? I've been playing around with all of these and some of them work as HDR just fine while others just show the compressed HDR texture as it appears in the preview/when decompiled to tga (all pixelated, etc). I tried a bunch of tests and examined the VMTs between the skies that worked correctly, the ones that didn't, and the HDR skies that come with CSGO and they are all identical from what I could tell, so the only conclusion I could draw is that something changed in the VTF specification along the way?

Late quote, but CS:GO broke the "sky" shader. The only way to do it now is to use "UnlitGeneric" on the LDR skies.

Hipshot · April 1, 2014 at 5:18 PM

Looks ace.

spence · April 1, 2014 at 7:57 PM

Quote from Stiffy360

Late quote, but CS:GO broke the "sky" shader. The only way to do it now is to use "UnlitGeneric" on the LDR skies.

Thanks. Does this mean we dont have HDR skies in CSGO? It's strange, because some of them from the pack appear to work correctly (sky_reddusk01 as an example) but only when their LDR equivalent is loaded. The same goes for the stock skies; loading the HDR equivalent displays the compressed HDR texture while loading the one without the HDR extension applies the bloom effect to the sky.

This is good to know though, cheers. If you have the uncompressed versions of the skies it would be a huge asset, because some of the LDR ones were shrunk down to save texture memory and are very pixelated (~256px for example) while their HDR equivalents are full 1024px. If you need hosting for this let me know, I've got tons of space!

Stiffy360 · May 1, 2014 at 12:54 AM

wow extremely late, but CS:GO effectively broke the sky shader so HDR skies no longer work. You must use the LDR sky with unlitgeneric to use in CS:GO

kinggambit · June 22, 2014 at 10:48 PM

daaayam reminds me of de_reef's skybox! Congratz on publishing your map btw! Hope it wasn't too late to get into the next operation!

Drakeee · October 22, 2014 at 2:00 PM

so are there any instructions on how to use these?

spence · October 22, 2014 at 2:34 PM

Put them in materials/skybox and set the sky name in map properties to correspond to the sky you wish to use.

cashed · October 22, 2014 at 8:46 PM

link doesnt seem to work for me

El_Exodus · October 22, 2014 at 9:31 PM

Quote from cashed

link doesnt seem to work for me

Still on my HDD. Should i reupload the file?

Source Skybox Texture Pack (403mb)

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