Skyboxes in Irrlicht?

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:40 am

Does Irrlicht have support for skyboxes?

I changed the sky texture in Q3map tutorial for a plain blue jpg and it's showing up tiled by some black lines. How can I make it show up as plai plain plain plain blue? (If no skybox is supported yet).

here's a shot:

thnx

disanti · Post by **disanti** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:08 am

If you want it a solid color, there isn't any need for a sky box. Just use:

driver->beginScene(...);

You can change the settings in that to make whatever background color you want

________
Piero ferrari specifications

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:14 am

great! I'll try it out

and what about skyboxes. Is there support for them?

BTW, disanti, is there a reference with all of Irrlicht's command set in order to familiarize with it?

thnx!

Robomaniac · Post by **Robomaniac** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:16 am

The Irrlicht API, get the link from the irrlicht project page. And yes, there is skybox support

deps · Post by **deps** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:37 am

I get those black lines sometimes when i'm using dx8, instead of dx9 or opengl. And not only on a skybox, on about everything.

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:39 am

Thnx for the info guys.

I'll check the Irrlicht API right away. I'm just a beginner so bare with my q's.

As for the skybox, is there a tutorial on it?

cheers!

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:47 am

Yes, Irrlicht supports sky box !!!
Look after "addSkyBoxSceneNode" in the doc...
(you have to set 6 textures there)

CU, Acki

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:15 am

thanx Acki!

Disanti, how do you set a color in: driver->beginScene(...);

is it RGB, hex or cmyk?

sample code line...plz!

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:30 am

No problem

To set the back color use SColor (a, r, g, b)

CU

disanti · Post by **disanti** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:30 am

You have to use SColor(Alpha,Red,Blue,Green)

I believe that it correct but I always seem to get the alpha mixed up.

Whoa! Acki and I posted at the exact same time!!!

________
FORD XK FALCON PICTURE

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:56 am

h aha ha ha ha! Kewl! You guys "cyber-crashed"

I'm always afraid to use those alpha values. They usually mess things up...baaaaaaaaaadly! You gotta know a lot about sprites, and transparent textures.

would this be ok?

driver->beginScene(255,0,0,255);

or values are set in binary mode? what values should be added for the alpha channel?

more q's!!!!

man! so much info. This engine is f... catchy! I just downloaded yesterday and I can't stop reading and trying and screwing things up!!!

cheers!

disanti · Post by **disanti** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:32 pm

I don't believe alpha effects the background color, someone correct me if I'm wrong but I've never seen a difference.
________
Opium rehab forum