sn0wsh00 Posted February 2, 2022 Report Share Posted February 2, 2022 (edited) Here are some skyboxes that I created in SpaceEngine that I though I could share with you guys, divided by theme. These skyboxes use VTF version 7.5 and were originally created for CS:GO. However, they do work with GMOD and Source Filmmaker. Earth-Moon system EarthSpace01: Earth from medium Earth orbit (1 skybox) EarthSpace02 pack: Earth from the Earth-Moon L5 Lagrange point (3 skyboxes) EarthSpace03 pack: Earth from geostationary orbit (3 skyboxes) EarthSpace04 pack: Earth from low Earth orbit (3 skyboxes) Nebulas Nebula Skybox Pack #1: 6 skyboxes Nebula Skybox Pack #2: 6 skyboxes Skybox Packs SpaceEngine Skybox Pack #1: 9 skyboxes SpaceEngine Skybox Pack #2: 5 skyboxes SpaceEngine Skybox Pack #3: 9 skyboxes SpaceEngine Skybox Pack #4: 9 skyboxes Other SpaceEngine skyboxes Black Hole skyboxes: 2 skyboxes Installation05_01: Features Halo's Installation 05 (1 skybox) MoonWaterHorizon skyboxes: 2 skyboxes StarField skyboxes: 2 skyboxes These skyboxes feature either 1024x1024 or 2048x2048 faces. Most of these files are compressed with either BGRA8888 or DXT5. I've found DXT5 to be about as good in quality as BGRA8888, but with a much smaller file size. The only major difference I found between DXT5 and BGRA8888 are with sun halos, in that sun halos are a lot more apparent with DXT5 than with BGRA8888. Fortunately, skybox faces don't need have the same compression format, so some faces can be DXT and other faces can be BGRA8888. And now some screenshot samples: MoonHab_02 (from SpaceEngine Skybox Pack #1) Spoiler EarthSpace03 (from the EarthSpace03 pack) Spoiler Nebula_04 (from Nebula Pack #1) Spoiler Installation05_01, on the map csgo_halo_ascension (my CS:GO port of Halo's Ascension map) Spoiler IceMoon_01 (from SpaceEngine Skybox Pack #3) Spoiler VenusLike_02 (from SpaceEngine Skybox Pack #4) Spoiler Edited March 13, 2022 by sn0wsh00 Edited links, rewording, new skyboxes wazeecha and Mr.Yeah! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn0wsh00 Posted February 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 Renaming SpaceEngine cubemap faces to Source Engine cubemap faces can be tedious, so I wrote a batch program to speed up this process: Spoiler set skyboxname=SkyboxNameHere rename "sky_neg_x.vtf" "%skyboxname%bk.vtf" rename "sky_neg_y.vtf" "%skyboxname%dn.vtf" rename "sky_neg_z.vtf" "%skyboxname%lf.vtf" rename "sky_pos_x.vtf" "%skyboxname%ft.vtf" rename "sky_pos_y.vtf" "%skyboxname%up.vtf" rename "sky_pos_z.vtf" "%skyboxname%rt.vtf" This script in particular renames the VTF files that are created with VTFEdit's import tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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