What I always used to do is simply build the skybox around the actual map. Then, at the end, place the skybox entity at 0,0,0. Select it and all geometry that I want to place in the miniature skybox and scale it down by 16x, and move it out of the map. That way, you can do much more complex connections than just having a pre-measured cube extending into the skybox. It also fixes texture alignment for you without having to resort to inconsistent texture resolutions.
nevermind, i misunderstood and thought it meant you had to put your level directly at the center of the world for the skybox to appear around it. i build a large map and its nowhere near the center of the map and it would take too long to move it all but i figured out that the skybox still works. but it moves along when i move like a regular skybox so i still have to fix that. but the other thing don't even worry about that.
Too late to comment but in the edit menu there is Select All option. Using it you can move the whole level at once. You can do this precisely with transform option but I won't recommend this method since it can sometimes break things randomly and it will be hard to check in this scenario.
A good tip I've picked up is to put the sky_camera at 0, 0, 0, select the edges of your level, hold Shift and drag them off out into the map, and then scale it down to fit the size that the map will be.
Problem fixed, i just changed textures to 2d skybox and then again back to 3d. and now i have nice skybox! Btw thanks for the tutorials i have learned a lot from you in a month
A simpler way of keeping the texture scale, would be to keep texture lock and texture scale on (It's an icon along the top row with 'tl' written on it, and arrows either side) and then making everything smaller, which can also be more easily done, by pressing CTRL + M and then making everything 0.0625 its original size.
Okay, thanks for clearing up the confusing part of either having a sky-camera at (0,0,0) or is it just a small representation of it. For the second part, I think it might have also had to do with the size and complexity of the sky-box that was constructed a long time ago before learning on how to reduce resource waste of the map.
a simpler way to handle the scaling/texture problem is to toggle the scaling texture lock button on the toolbar, positioned at #26 from the left, #13 from the right.
A better way to make a 3d skybox is to work in the "real world" first, and then select everything that you want to be in the 3dsky, including a skycamera that you place in 0.0.0, and scale transform the selection to 0,0625 (1/16). This way, your 3d skybox fits 100%, Also make sure to have texture lock and texture scale lock on so the texture matches as well. This way you can even have displacements that fits 100% To scale transform right click on one of the 2d-viewports and choose transform! :)
You shouldn't have to as the skybox acts as a wall anyway, but if the corner is supposed to be inside the map then you can put in a no draw wall or up-scale the skybox a bit more.
do anyone still asking this question in 2019 those are func_physboxes if you want them to collide with other things and the player you need to make sure the "Debris" box is NOT checked you also need to add "Health level to override motion" to be something greater than zero, and "strength" greater than zero so when you shoot at it, it moves
if you have the minituare skybox in the middle of the level how come you're not seen super huge in the background with it. does the skybox camera not accept player characters?
I seem to have already solved it :) What I did was to open the .bsp file in GCFScape, and in it there was a materials folder! I simply put that into my other materials folder, and voila, it worked.
Hi Philip, thanks for putting up these tutorials! I have a question about dynamically editing the properties of the sky_camera. Each time the players spawns in my level, I'd like to be able to choose which way the camera faces (specifically, I'd like to change the Yaw value). Is there away to target a named sky_camera entity and specify the Yaw angle? This is for a cognitive psychology study. If this isn't possible, do you know if I can use 2 skycameras for the same map and choose between them?
As i thought i have a problem with the l shaped map but not directly connected with the 3d skybox, its just that from one corner of the L i can see the other one
How to make the sky paintable? I mean the clean blue texture you have there, it's paintable in Garry's Mod And by the way, the skybox is projected a little bit under the map, that moving it even by the smallest Hammer scale won't fix the problem. I can also see the box in the skybox from the normal map, if I go to the outer side, close to the wall.
I am not sure where the assumption came from about 3-D Sky-boxes, Philip, but some tutorials say that the sky camera should directly be at the (0, 0, 0) coordinate rather than the sky camera just representing it in a smaller scale (such as putting a level at (0, 0, 0) coordinate and having stuff around the sky camera to be part of the sky). Also, why is it that some people have difficulty downloading a map with a 3-D sky-box from a server that has a content downloads plugin?
Oh! So that's why there's always a miniature version of a map way out of reach in noclip! Huh, that's really cool actually, I always wondered about that :)
I don't think I know what "mapping" means, lol. Since I've already said that I was trying to import a gmod map into SFM. I didn't move the materials folder from the .bsp file, I only copied it. Not sure what's happening to you, though :/
I have been trying to import a gmod map into SFM. What settings should I use when I decompile with BSPSource and compile with hammer, for a map such as big_city? I believe it has custom textures, and therefore I attempted to decompile it with the "extract embedded files" checked. But that only made hammer crash when I tried to open it. If I leave that option unchecked, it will load up in hammer, but there are several textures missing (Shown as white textures, instead of black and purple squares)
my actual map rendered as the 3d skybox alongside the actual 3d skybox, also the 3d actual skybox is visible from the actual map through the 2d skybox help
Whenever I create a 3D skybox, it seems to create properly, however where skybox textures are in the 3D skybox it creates an effect similar to that of a map leak, where nothing new is rendered, and moving the cursor creates copies of the currently displayed scene. This is a problem as this occurs in the true map aswell. Not sure what to do about this, and I haven't seen anyone else with this issue. Also, yes, the 3D skybox is big enough to cover the level.
NetherAnimations (Gaming and Animation) Yep, also games like Fistful of frags, postal 3 (not a good game), Black mesa, Insurgency, the ship and lots more.
hey phil, this is an out of the way question but. theres 4 panels right? the top left is the camera panel. anyways, how do you resize a block on that panel? i forgot how to do it but i have more control when i do it that way. thank you so much
I already tried that. The problem isn't that the skybox is misaligned, the problem is that only part of it appears. The Southeast quarter of the skybox shows up perfectly fine, but the rest of it is completely missing.
I wanted to make a map , such as blackmesa with those fighters flying , like an animation to put on the map, does anyone know if it exists? and if so, can you help me , or at least explain ?
How can I make it where, a trigger in the map causes an explosion and destroys part of the 3D skybox. I'm not sure how, and I don't know if you even can. Like in 4:01
I have 2 questions: when im not worried about alignement, it doesnt matter where i put the sky camera? I can just stick it anywhere outside the level? And second, does it work properly when its an L shaped map?
Honestly I feel that this video left more questions than it answered... Where should a sky_camera be placed? Do I need special textures? Does "2DSkybox" have any use?
Hey 3kliksphilip, I just wondered how you made that building break in a realistic fashion at the beginning with the miniature skybox model. Normal breakables won't emulate this (atleast not for me), please help!
So, I put a skybox in my map and now I can't load it up. It gets stuck on "Portalflow 1...2...3...4...5...6..." and I don't know why. The size of my map isn't a problem, because I have a terabyte of space on my computer. Is the skybox the problem? Or....?
(I'm using episode 2 for this map) When I try to render and test the map, it doesn't create a .BPS file and I cannot play-test my map! I see no errors showing up in the compiling thing. Help?
Ok, I fixed that, not sure what I did wrong. Whenever I run my map, I can see the sky but not the 3D objects. It's lined up properly, has the sky_camera but the objects just arent appearing, i'm not sure what i've done wrong.
I have a problem. I got my skybox working, but the light it should emit is now gone. I got it working at one point, but as soon as I moved some of the props to get a better view the problem came back. I've checked if anything is coming out of the skybox, both the miniature-scale models skybox and the actual maps skybox, but everything was inside them. I also tried loading a pointfile but it seems I don't have one, and I don't know how to create one. Any suggestions how to fix this?
hello good sir, how did you get those houses in the far back. im wanting to make an open field type map with forest and small villages ive seen the texture in the list but how do you apply it like you did those little villas?
I used load pointfile on my map, but the line is pointing at nothing. It's not touching my map at all. This issue wasn't covered in the valve developer community.
Not sure if you'll answer but I'd like to put the Citadel in my 3d skybox but I only find those enormous models of it in the hammer. Any idea how to make it?
CORRECTION; Upon further inspection, I have realized that only the southeast corner of the skybox appears. The rest of the skybox simply will not show up.
Problem. I am currently editing a map but there is a brush with the sky texture on it and when I delete it another one is still there and no matter how many times I delete it there will still be a somewhat infinite brush there any help ?
hello there! didn't know where to ask or search for an answer, so here it is :P i don't seem to be able to apply skybox textures from lost coast, day of defeat etc, on my maps. i have the games in my library but something doesn't work. any solutions? thanks in advance and keep up the good work! the vids are amazing!
What I always used to do is simply build the skybox around the actual map. Then, at the end, place the skybox entity at 0,0,0. Select it and all geometry that I want to place in the miniature skybox and scale it down by 16x, and move it out of the map.
That way, you can do much more complex connections than just having a pre-measured cube extending into the skybox. It also fixes texture alignment for you without having to resort to inconsistent texture resolutions.
I see Philip went to the Prometheus School of Running Away From Falling Things.
k
Very nice tutorial, easy and quick.
+3kliksphilip
Oh how I miss these good old videos.
oh how I miss these good old videos
Oh how i miss these good old videos.
Oh how i miss these good old videos.
nevermind, i misunderstood and thought it meant you had to put your level directly at the center of the world for the skybox to appear around it. i build a large map and its nowhere near the center of the map and it would take too long to move it all but i figured out that the skybox still works. but it moves along when i move like a regular skybox so i still have to fix that. but the other thing don't even worry about that.
Too late to comment but in the edit menu there is Select All option. Using it you can move the whole level at once. You can do this precisely with transform option but I won't recommend this method since it can sometimes break things randomly and it will be hard to check in this scenario.
@@smitias_8474 bro has kids now and u still replied💀💀💀💀💀💀
your videos are helpful even ten years later
no way real breen
that building....
is a tree.
No messing around, just what I need, cheers mate
A good tip I've picked up is to put the sky_camera at 0, 0, 0, select the edges of your level, hold Shift and drag them off out into the map, and then scale it down to fit the size that the map will be.
like your tutorials m8
Thank you SOOOO MUCH!!! I've never found a GOOD 3d skybox tutorial, but I finally got it! Thanks again!
Problem fixed, i just changed textures to 2d skybox and then again back to 3d. and now i have nice skybox! Btw thanks for the tutorials i have learned a lot from you in a month
Thanks for the help. It's working fine now. I am making maps for source filmmaker; in case you were wondering.
DAAMN this is cool, i make maps for some time now but this is something i didn't know. Awesome tutorial philip, great job!
You have saved so many hours of my life with these tutorials man :D
I agree hes the best
Thanks again. You make the best hammer tutorials :)
A simpler way of keeping the texture scale, would be to keep texture lock and texture scale on (It's an icon along the top row with 'tl' written on it, and arrows either side) and then making everything smaller, which can also be more easily done, by pressing CTRL + M and then making everything 0.0625 its original size.
Thanks. I may now pray to my giant chicken overlords
Oh my, newer tutorials!
Okay, thanks for clearing up the confusing part of either having a sky-camera at (0,0,0) or is it just a small representation of it. For the second part, I think it might have also had to do with the size and complexity of the sky-box that was constructed a long time ago before learning on how to reduce resource waste of the map.
a simpler way to handle the scaling/texture problem is to toggle the scaling texture lock button on the toolbar, positioned at #26 from the left, #13 from the right.
Glad to see you're active again :D
I got it working, thanks for the help. I'm making maps to use in source filmmaker; in case you were wondering.
A better way to make a 3d skybox is to work in the "real world" first, and then select everything that you want to be in the 3dsky, including a skycamera that you place in 0.0.0, and scale transform the selection to 0,0625 (1/16). This way, your 3d skybox fits 100%, Also make sure to have texture lock and texture scale lock on so the texture matches as well. This way you can even have displacements that fits 100%
To scale transform right click on one of the 2d-viewports and choose transform!
:)
Very clear tutorial. Thank you!
You shouldn't have to as the skybox acts as a wall anyway, but if the corner is supposed to be inside the map then you can put in a no draw wall or up-scale the skybox a bit more.
you can change the texture size of the skybox ! then it matches up with the map end ! LG Thomas
how do you get physics like at the end of this video? ive tried to do it but the block just goes through you and doesnt kill you! someone help me out!
cornflakes23 Maybe he didn't put it in the skybox? I don't know, but it's fucking awesome.
+AtomicTeddy yea, it wasn't in the skybox
do anyone still asking this question in 2019
those are func_physboxes
if you want them to collide with other things and the player you need to make sure the "Debris" box is NOT checked
you also need to add "Health level to override motion" to be something greater than zero, and "strength" greater than zero so when you shoot at it, it moves
Nice tutorial!
Much better than the old german HL2 Tutorial I know!
I actually watched the JNBridge ad because it interests me :D
Your tutorials are perfect
thx a lot 3k, im gonna do a map on a dam, so is pretty damn huge, therefore i will have to use this on the map, thx man
if you have the minituare skybox in the middle of the level how come you're not seen super huge in the background with it. does the skybox camera not accept player characters?
thanks! exactly what i needed! youre always so helpful!!
this will help people nicely
i've never felt so skybox
I guess im fine with using 2d skyboxes then
I seem to have already solved it :) What I did was to open the .bsp file in GCFScape, and in it there was a materials folder! I simply put that into my other materials folder, and voila, it worked.
Thanks! This helped me so much.
is there anyway to make the skybox display anywhere besides the 0, 0, 0 mark?
Hi Philip, thanks for putting up these tutorials! I have a question about dynamically editing the properties of the sky_camera. Each time the players spawns in my level, I'd like to be able to choose which way the camera faces (specifically, I'd like to change the Yaw value). Is there away to target a named sky_camera entity and specify the Yaw angle? This is for a cognitive psychology study.
If this isn't possible, do you know if I can use 2 skycameras for the same map and choose between them?
As i thought i have a problem with the l shaped map but not directly connected with the 3d skybox, its just that from one corner of the L i can see the other one
How to make the sky paintable? I mean the clean blue texture you have there, it's paintable in Garry's Mod
And by the way, the skybox is projected a little bit under the map, that moving it even by the smallest Hammer scale won't fix the problem. I can also see the box in the skybox from the normal map, if I go to the outer side, close to the wall.
oh u said it after some seconds^^ cheers !
I am not sure where the assumption came from about 3-D Sky-boxes, Philip, but some tutorials say that the sky camera should directly be at the (0, 0, 0) coordinate rather than the sky camera just representing it in a smaller scale (such as putting a level at (0, 0, 0) coordinate and having stuff around the sky camera to be part of the sky). Also, why is it that some people have difficulty downloading a map with a 3-D sky-box from a server that has a content downloads plugin?
Oh! So that's why there's always a miniature version of a map way out of reach in noclip! Huh, that's really cool actually, I always wondered about that :)
I don't think I know what "mapping" means, lol. Since I've already said that I was trying to import a gmod map into SFM.
I didn't move the materials folder from the .bsp file, I only copied it. Not sure what's happening to you, though :/
3:55 battlefield 6 looks impressive ngl
I have been trying to import a gmod map into SFM. What settings should I use when I decompile with BSPSource and compile with hammer, for a map such as big_city? I believe it has custom textures, and therefore I attempted to decompile it with the "extract embedded files" checked. But that only made hammer crash when I tried to open it. If I leave that option unchecked, it will load up in hammer, but there are several textures missing (Shown as white textures, instead of black and purple squares)
my actual map rendered as the 3d skybox alongside the actual 3d skybox, also the 3d actual skybox is visible from the actual map through the 2d skybox
help
Whenever I create a 3D skybox, it seems to create properly, however where skybox textures are in the 3D skybox it creates an effect similar to that of a map leak, where nothing new is rendered, and moving the cursor creates copies of the currently displayed scene. This is a problem as this occurs in the true map aswell. Not sure what to do about this, and I haven't seen anyone else with this issue. Also, yes, the 3D skybox is big enough to cover the level.
please tell me if you find a fix to this
@@BabzaiWWP idk I think it was because the map wasn't aligned to the hammer grid iirc since it was a stretched version of a map
@@thennoth2860 i dont think thats my issue but thanks
He used func_physboxes i believe that would automatically unfreeze(or stop being "asleep") once the explosion went off.
3:58 9/11?
can you make your own game with the source sdk, like isn't stanley parable made in source sdk?
NetherAnimations (Gaming and Animation) Yep, also games like Fistful of frags, postal 3 (not a good game), Black mesa, Insurgency, the ship and lots more.
Lukas Madrid dont forget titanfall
Horned marten
whoa! I didn't even know it was made on source.
Lukas Madrid yea it was made on a source modification
huh
Did you make the building's yourself? if you do can you explain? if not explain were to get it :D because i see its breakable
the question is not: has he made this buildings.
the question is: was the building at the end the skybox building?
@@user-it6jd1sb6k i know this is 6 years old but, shut the fuck up
hey phil, this is an out of the way question but. theres 4 panels right? the top left is the camera panel. anyways, how do you resize a block on that panel? i forgot how to do it but i have more control when i do it that way. thank you so much
I already tried that. The problem isn't that the skybox is misaligned, the problem is that only part of it appears. The Southeast quarter of the skybox shows up perfectly fine, but the rest of it is completely missing.
Right but when are you going to teach us how to make those badass destructible buildings?
I wanted to make a map , such as blackmesa with those fighters flying , like an animation to put on the map, does anyone know if it exists? and if so, can you help me , or at least explain ?
Thanks for the tutorial! Any idea how to make a skybox with a 3D city like in Vertigo?
How can I make it where, a trigger in the map causes an explosion and destroys part of the 3D skybox. I'm not sure how, and I don't know if you even can. Like in 4:01
This didn't work for me. Idk why. I applied and nothing happened?
+thechannelitrollwith lmao dude please
C9 Jatt
lol i was for real, but i was doing it entirely wrong. nothing to see here.
I have 2 questions: when im not worried about alignement, it doesnt matter where i put the sky camera? I can just stick it anywhere outside the level? And second, does it work properly when its an L shaped map?
Honestly I feel that this video left more questions than it answered...
Where should a sky_camera be placed? Do I need special textures? Does "2DSkybox" have any use?
2d skybox has a use when the level itself obscures any area that the player will be able to see over, or just an easy test sky sorry for late response
Wow, I finally get it. :x
How do you make the crumbling building, though?
Hey 3kliksphilip, I just wondered how you made that building break in a realistic fashion at the beginning with the miniature skybox model. Normal breakables won't emulate this (atleast not for me), please help!
After i did this my whole map turned into diffrent colours like blue and green. What should i do to fix it?
zinozax l
Do you have toggleable lights? If yes and you're mapping for cs go, don't use any kind of flickering or toggleable light
With the sky_camera entity, is the bottom-center of it representing the point (0,0,0)?
Do you want me to finish the map first? (I just started on it yesterday) or do you want me to send you what I have now?
Whenever I run my map, the skybox appears in black and purple squares. What have I done wrong? All help is appreciated.
Instead of changing the texture scale couldn't you use texture lock when scaling the brush down?
How did you do that ragdoll building thingy at end? Could you please make tutorial how to make building collapse into pieces and go into ragdoll mode?
So, I put a skybox in my map and now I can't load it up. It gets stuck on "Portalflow 1...2...3...4...5...6..." and I don't know why. The size of my map isn't a problem, because I have a terabyte of space on my computer. Is the skybox the problem? Or....?
3kliksphilip Please could you make a tutorial on how to do physics objects/buildings like the one at 0:08 . Thanks in advace.
+29Evilbunny i started making my map.. do i make a skybox first or after i finish with the map ?
+4N1M470R Kinda late, but see his fake DMM tutorial. It's the same concept.
Masaru Wright Yeah I found that tutorial a while after I commented that, thanks though; this will help others.
nice
When I tried this in portal 2, it did not work, it said it could not compile properly
what do I do if the 0,0 point is outside of the map itself and it's way too late to move the entire map?
Why can't I hide my other terrain outside the skybox like the skybox terrain that's outside the skybox
(I'm using episode 2 for this map) When I try to render and test the map, it doesn't create a .BPS file and I cannot play-test my map! I see no errors showing up in the compiling thing. Help?
For some reason, my skybox always appears to start at the left corner of my map and continue on from there, ignoring what I've done. Any suggestions?
so I must put invisible wall to not hit the skybox, yes?
I'd set the scale to 10, so that it's easier to calculate.
Which also makes it much more inaccurate. This is what we have calculators for.
battlecraftcrafter
Eh, true.
Tried it, and attempted again after reading your comment. It just drags another box. Am I missing an option setting?
I can still see the miniature in the skybox in my map. How do I solve this problem?
Ok, I fixed that, not sure what I did wrong. Whenever I run my map, I can see the sky but not the 3D objects. It's lined up properly, has the sky_camera but the objects just arent appearing, i'm not sure what i've done wrong.
I have a problem. I got my skybox working, but the light it should emit is now gone. I got it working at one point, but as soon as I moved some of the props to get a better view the problem came back. I've checked if anything is coming out of the skybox, both the miniature-scale models skybox and the actual maps skybox, but everything was inside them. I also tried loading a pointfile but it seems I don't have one, and I don't know how to create one. Any suggestions how to fix this?
hello good sir, how did you get those houses in the far back. im wanting to make an open field type map with forest and small villages ive seen the texture in the list but how do you apply it like you did those little villas?
Oh my, this was an extremely stupid question. Thanks
it works when i spawn camera in main map, but when i make skybox outside, it just doesnt work and shows me 2d skybox
I used load pointfile on my map, but the line is pointing at nothing. It's not touching my map at all. This issue wasn't covered in the valve developer community.
Not sure if you'll answer but I'd like to put the Citadel in my 3d skybox but I only find those enormous models of it in the hammer. Any idea how to make it?
How to do Breakable Stuff? :0
wow 9 months ago, I already know to do physboxes from like 7 months ago
you know smthn new?
Just an FYI, the link for displacements on your website leads to this video.
CORRECTION; Upon further inspection, I have realized that only the southeast corner of the skybox appears. The rest of the skybox simply will not show up.
Hi how did you make the building fall down when you shot it? Ty
i made the skybox and lined it up, however it can see past the skybox texture i put around it . help!
Problem. I am currently editing a map but there is a brush with the sky texture on it and when I delete it another one is still there and no matter how many times I delete it there will still be a somewhat infinite brush there any help ?
hello there! didn't know where to ask or search for an answer, so here it is :P
i don't seem to be able to apply skybox textures from lost coast, day of defeat etc, on my maps. i have the games in my library but something doesn't work. any solutions?
thanks in advance and keep up the good work! the vids are amazing!
Need help! Why i can see my skybox model on map through sky. Also i can see resized copy of my map in sky.
Waiiii.... How did you make destructible buildings?
i followed you tutorial but sky textures doesnt appear at all,whats the problem?
is it normal when I go into map's corner and 3d skybox a bit dissapears?
What does Skybox_Swapper do? I saw that entity in Hammer, but couldn't find any information on it.