Lighting + HDRI Skyboxes

[Spacedog]

Spacedog submitted a new resource:

Skyboxes - Gorgeous panoramic views suitable for windows, rooftops, penthouses, balconies, tree houses and more

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Gorgeous panoramic views suitable for windows, rooftops, penthouses, balconies, tree houses, decking, pools and more.

Major Cities include:

New York
Los Angeles
San Francisco
London
Hong Kong
Kuala Lumpur
Miami
Las Vegas
Monaco
Toronto

Exotic locations

Thailand
Malaysia
Maldives
Seychelles
Bahamas

Nature Scenes

Costa Rica
Ecuador
Maine
Virginia
California
Arizona
Scotland

And much more!

This skybox collection is focused mainly on realistic...

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[Spacedog]

Spacedog updated Skyboxes with a new update entry:

AI upscale some images, tweaks and fixes

AI upscale some of the lower res images to make the set more consistent. Clean up some weird artifacts.

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[abc tits]

Spacedog submitted a new resource:

Skyboxes - Gorgeous panoramic views suitable for windows, rooftops, penthouses, balconies, tree houses and more

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Please provide a large milkyway or galaxy skybox. I want to blend it with my solar system scene

 

[Spacedog]

Please provide a large milkyway or galaxy skybox. I want to blend it with my solar system scene

That's a bit beyond my skill set I'm afraid, my Google Maps-fu is strong but that's about it ?

If you can find the right skybox yourself then I can put it in an assetbundle for you though.

 

[abc tits]

Does that mean my scene is too wide?
Then I can make the scene smaller

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MilkyWay galaxy sphere map 8k by darth-biomech on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

The Milky Way panorama

The Milky Way panorama

www.eso.org

I want to make either of these Skybox, but I was frustrated because I didn't know how to do it.

 

[Spacedog]

Does that mean my scene is too wide?
Then I can make the scene smaller

MilkyWay galaxy sphere map 8k by darth-biomech on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

The Milky Way panorama

The Milky Way panorama

www.eso.org

I want to make either of these Skybox, but I was frustrated because I didn't know how to do it.
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Here you go in glorious 8k if you want to release it yourself : ) https://mega.nz/file/RKwz3ZoZ#wrP0YQRmqK9MGuHZMZe2rW72q6HWkUGSUzLW1fWJkXU

 

[abc tits]

MilkyWay galaxy sphere map 8k by darth-biomech on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

The Milky Way panorama

The Milky Way panorama

www.eso.org

I want to make either of these Skybox, but I was frustrated because I didn't know how to do it.

Here you go in glorious 8k if you want to release it yourself : ) https://mega.nz/file/RKwz3ZoZ#wrP0YQRmqK9MGuHZMZe2rW72q6HWkUGSUzLW1fWJkXU
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wow! than you very much!!

 

[Voithe]

Hi! Is it possible to use this with skymagic?

 

[Spacedog]

Hi! Is it possible to use this with skymagic?

No, I did make it compatible at one point but there were problems with how Unity can't handle skybox rotation and a few other asset compatibility issues that made it more trouble than it was worth.

 

[Farger]

Skyboxes and ground planes - a match made in heaven.

 

[el_gallo]

Noob here. How do I use these? Google gives me nothing but 4 year old posts that might be outdated. I don't see them in the Scene Lighting tab; all I see are the stock skyboxes.

 

[Spacedog]

Noob here. How do I use these? Google gives me nothing but 4 year old posts that might be outdated. I don't see them in the Scene Lighting tab; all I see are the stock skyboxes.

Hey! You need to add a Custom Unity Asset atom to your scene then you can add it in that.

 

[el_gallo]

Okay. After watching this, I've got a Custom Unity Asset in my scene. Now what? It isn't clear to me what to do. I don't see any options to edit materials.

Are there full instructions for adding skyboxes somewhere for people new to VaM? This is very confusing and even on the help forum, I'm not getting step-by-step instructions. It seems like people just assume I know what to do by saying I need a Custom Unity Asset.

 

[Spacedog]

Okay. After watching this, I've got a Custom Unity Asset in my scene. Now what? It isn't clear to me what to do. I don't see any options to edit materials.

Are there full instructions for adding skyboxes somewhere for people new to VaM? This is very confusing and even on the help forum, I'm not getting step-by-step instructions. It seems like people just assume I know what to do by saying I need a Custom Unity Asset.

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Click "Select File..." Open the Skyboxes folder and select the asset, then you can select them from the "Asset" dropdown box.

 

[el_gallo]

Click "Select File..." Open the Skyboxes folder and select the asset, then you can select them from the "Asset" dropdown box.

Awesome. Thank you for the quick and thorough response.

 

[alwaysblue]

when I load this with zoidbergs chastity cage, it says file is not valid

 

[VamTastic]

Hi mate, i wanted to use one of your skyboxes for upcoming asset, i was about to load eosin's VR renderer plugin to record something.
only for Vam to give some errors about some shaders . and had to fish out what was casing it , only to find out it was the skybox
strange. i tried one of my old sky boxes to test and the VR renderer worked .

discovered the skyboxes are not an issue , that the errors is due to shaders that the VR renderer couldn't load
then found looking in the var in esosins script folder has something to do with the shaders in the VRRenderer.shaderbundle failing to load.
not sure why. this also happend with a unity mirror in Ghostwalden's Apartemento asset.

 

[Spacedog]

Hi mate, i wanted to use one of your skyboxes for upcoming asset, i was about to load eosin's VR renderer plugin to record something.
only for Vam to give some errors about some shaders . and had to fish out what was casing it , only to find out it was the skybox
strange. i tried one of my old sky boxes to test and the VR renderer worked .

discovered the skyboxes are not an issue , that the errors is due to shaders that the VR renderer couldn't load
then found looking in the var in esosins script folder has something to do with the shaders in the VRRenderer.shaderbundle failing to load.
not sure why. this also happend with a unity mirror in Ghostwalden's Apartemento asset.

Do you have an exact error message? I'm aware of an issue that will stop the asset loading alongside certain other assets and I have a fix for it which I'll roll out soon, but it is nothing to do with shaders.

 

[VamTastic]

Strange it does the same with Ghostwalden's Apartemento only that it shows the monitor with image. in the bottom right corner.where as using the skybox no image .

 

[Spacedog]

Spacedog updated Skyboxes with a new update entry:

Minor bug fix

Update to prevent a rare conflict with other assets that would make it give a "Not valid" error.

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[VamTastic]

Spacedog updated Skyboxes with a new update entry:

Minor bug fix



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What was the cause mate? would love to know as it would help me to avoid it, if i end up doing something in unity that will cause the bug.
great job on the update.

 

[Spacedog]

What was the cause mate? would love to know as it would help me to avoid it, if i end up doing something in unity that will cause the bug.
great job on the update.

It was a mistake in the Unity export since I was such a n00b with it, When you go to build the assetbundle it gives it a default name "newbundle". This is usually fine and you can rename whatever you want after the export, BUT if someone else has done the same thing then the two assets will refuse to load alongside each other.

Long story short, always name your assetbundle something unique as you export it from unity.

 

[VamTastic]

It was a mistake in the Unity export since I was such a n00b with it, When you go to build the assetbundle it gives it a default name "newbundle". This is usually fine and you can rename whatever you want after, BUT if someone else has done the same thing then the two assets will refuse to load alongside each other.

Long story short, always name your assetbundle something unique as you export it from unity.

Oh right , very interesting . thank you so much Spacedog, i will make a note of that .