Traditionally, skyboxes can be made with 6-sided cubes, hence the terms skybox or spacebox. Another method that works in making spaceboxes is utilizing giant spheres, or what I like to affectionately call space balls.
Many of these space balls can be added in tandem with each other. The subset of space balls that can be added to scenes at the same time include: space balls 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, c, and d. These spaceballs can be added together with other spaceboxes as well, such as those created by @hazmhox. The last two images below demonstrate this blending of effects. I have found in testing that the space balls cause mesh conflict issues with the default skyboxes in VAM, which does not produce good results.
When the demo scene loads, two space balls will be loaded at the same time, one with the main effect out in front of you and the other behind you, which demonstrates how more than one space ball can be run together. There is a toggle button to switch to a third space ball in the demo scene. A sound volume slider is included as well, my thanks to @mspeck01 for sound resources.
Many of these space balls can be added in tandem with each other. The subset of space balls that can be added to scenes at the same time include: space balls 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, c, and d. These spaceballs can be added together with other spaceboxes as well, such as those created by @hazmhox. The last two images below demonstrate this blending of effects. I have found in testing that the space balls cause mesh conflict issues with the default skyboxes in VAM, which does not produce good results.
When the demo scene loads, two space balls will be loaded at the same time, one with the main effect out in front of you and the other behind you, which demonstrates how more than one space ball can be run together. There is a toggle button to switch to a third space ball in the demo scene. A sound volume slider is included as well, my thanks to @mspeck01 for sound resources.
Credits to ESO/S. Brunier for the panoramic Milky Way image employed for Space Balls 5.
Other space balls based upon work from:
"Space nebula HDRI panorama 360 skydome" (https://skfb.ly/oKn6u) by Aliaksandr.melas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"FREE - SkyBox Space Nebula" (https://skfb.ly/oIIYS) by Paul is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Space nebula HDRI panorama 360 skydome" (https://skfb.ly/oKnor) by Aliaksandr.melas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Milky Way Skybox HDRI panorama" (https://skfb.ly/oKvUJ) by Aliaksandr.melas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
My sincere gratitude to mspeck01 for providing sound engineering work for this resource.
Other space balls based upon work from:
"Space nebula HDRI panorama 360 skydome" (https://skfb.ly/oKn6u) by Aliaksandr.melas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"FREE - SkyBox Space Nebula" (https://skfb.ly/oIIYS) by Paul is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Space nebula HDRI panorama 360 skydome" (https://skfb.ly/oKnor) by Aliaksandr.melas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Milky Way Skybox HDRI panorama" (https://skfb.ly/oKvUJ) by Aliaksandr.melas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
My sincere gratitude to mspeck01 for providing sound engineering work for this resource.
