{"id":112775214359,"date":"2015-03-05T02:27:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sketchfab.com\/post\/112775214359"},"modified":"2019-08-15T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:54:51","slug":"how-to-add-a-skybox-to-your-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/blogs\/community\/how-to-add-a-skybox-to-your-model\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a Skybox to your model"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valentina Lee is a student of Game Art in Singapore. I noticed her beautiful ’Little Mage<\/a>’ model and asked her to show us how she created the skybox.<\/em><\/p>\n

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First off, I went for the tent-shaped kind of skybox to accompany my ‘Little Mage’. An alternative that I thought of was a dome-like roof for the box, which can be more suitable if you\u2019re thinking of a vast, open area, where you could show lots of the sky.<\/p>\n

But as it distorts too much of the trees in the texture, the dome was not used in the final product.<\/p>\n

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Next, I reversed the face normals<\/strong> of my skybox so to allow it to face inwards. Then, I turn on backface culling so that I can see the character inside the skybox. Next, I softened<\/strong> the edge normals.<\/p>\n

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In \u2018Little Mage\u2019 I wanted my environment to be in a deep mysterious forest. I\u2019ve split my UVs of the tent-shaped skybox and the floor into 4 sections. The walls and roof are mirrored while each section of the floor shares the same texture tile.<\/p>\n

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\u200bI added tons of fog to give a sort atmospheric depth into the scene, so it feels like the character is not just enclosed into a box.<\/p>\n

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In the Sketchfab settings, I’ve turned on ’Shadeless<\/strong>’ for shading. Make sure to select ’Single Sided<\/strong>’ under Faces<\/strong> Rendering so that the skybox will appear according to your face normals!<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s say you would prefer a scene indoors; here’s just a quick example of an interior setting:<\/p>\n

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\n Little Mage<\/a>
\n by Valentina Lee<\/a>
\n on Sketchfab<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Thanks Valentina!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visit Valentina’s portfolio here on Sketchfab<\/a> and her personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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