Another one of jestermon's really awesome tools! This Skybox generator makes some pretty cool skies!
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2010, 07:32:47 PM »
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ninkeon58
jestermon
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2010, 04:05:53 AM »
Thanks ninkeo, My toy is just a converter, the actual credit for the artwork goes to frecle's tool.
That's a cool idea, very useful, thanks PsychoWeasel9 .
That's a cool idea, very useful, thanks PsychoWeasel9 .
« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2010, 04:54:09 AM »
I may be totally brain dead this morning and just missing something completely, But I am not getting anything generated from your tool Jess. I unzipped the skypanorama folder into the radskyboxmaker folder. Generated sky with skypanorma, ran radskyboxmaker.exe, but nothing generated in the skybox folder. What am I doing wrong?
jestermon
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2010, 05:52:54 AM »
I may be totally brain dead this morning and just missing something completely, But I am not getting anything generated from your tool Jess. I unzipped the skypanorama folder into the radskyboxmaker folder. Generated sky with skypanorma, ran radskyboxmaker.exe, but nothing generated in the skybox folder. What am I doing wrong?Hmmmm.. let's see which button that was again ..
Try the following steps
1., Run skypanorma, hit A or Z till you see something you like
2.. Save a skybox, it should make a .bmp file in the radskyboxmaker folder
Note.. Do not use spaces in the name, it confuses Pygame, the engine I used for the tool.
3.. Run radskyboxmaker, now there should be no more .bmp in the radskyboxmaker folder
4.. Look in the radskyboxmaker\skybox\data\<yourfilename> for 6x .jpg files (those are the textures)
5.. Look in radskyboxmaker\skybox\data\index for <yourfilename>.jpg (This is the index file)
6.. Copy the <data\<yourfilename> folder contents into the 3D Rad skybox\data\<yourfilename> folder
7.. Copy the index <<yourfilename>.jpg into the 3D Rad Skybox\data\index folder
That's it. If any of the above steps do not work, then I have no idea what is preventing it.. It could be user permissions, security, or some other setting.. Both exe's have been checked with Norton, MacAfee and Comodo, so they are clean of any "infection".
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2010, 12:36:01 PM »
My bad...I had extracted skypanorama into its own folder inside radskyboxmaker, which wouldnt work but after extracting files in the the root of radskyboxmaker it all worked fine...Thanks Jestermon!
psikotropico
« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2010, 01:12:54 PM »
2.. Save a skybox, it should make a .bmp file in the radskyboxmaker folder
you forgot this 'very important' point in your first post, jess...
it took to me about 10 min. to get the correct location...
jestermon
« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2010, 06:41:42 PM »
Sorry about that guys. Yea I did forget to mention that the cubemap should be saved to the radskyboxmaker folder, else it won't work properly.
Even angels make mistakes
Even angels make mistakes
« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2010, 02:18:38 AM »
Good work Jestermon. Thank you!!!
But I did not know one thing:
I first generated several BMPs with "SkyPanorama2008.exe" and your application generated only a skybox with a BMP' and had eliminated the other BMP's.
But I did not know one thing:
I first generated several BMPs with "SkyPanorama2008.exe" and your application generated only a skybox with a BMP' and had eliminated the other BMP's.
jestermon
« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2010, 12:54:02 PM »
Good work Jestermon. Thank you!!!The pipeline.. process to follow .. is to generate 1 skybox at a time.
But I did not know one thing:
I first generated several BMPs with "SkyPanorama2008.exe" and your application generated only a skybox with a BMP' and had eliminated the other BMP's.
Here's what happens inside the works
1.. panorama saves a bmp
2.. skymaker looks for a bmp
3.. skymaker splits the image, enlarges it, and creates .jpg images
4.. skybox makes a folder, copies .jpg .sky and index to the skybox folders
5.. skybox deletes all .jpg's and .bmp''s to get ready for the next round
So you can only make 1 skybox at a time, the .bmp is used to automate the process. Skybox looks for a .bmp file, and uses it's name for the skybox, then deletes the .bmp, to prevent duplicates.. Sorry xaedro, that's the way I wrote it.
« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2011, 08:22:56 AM »
Unfortunately, SkyPanorama2008.exe isn't available for downloading, because the http://www.frecle.net/cloud/skypanorama.zip link is dead.
Is there any other site with the program ?
Is there any other site with the program ?
jestermon
« Reply #26 on: April 05, 2011, 12:46:55 PM »
I asked Forbe if I could add the panorama program to my zip when I published it, but he said rather link to it, so I can't upload the file, since that would be against his wishes.
I know of no other links.
Sorry Alec
I know of no other links.
Sorry Alec
« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2011, 12:54:53 PM »
the link is working :
http://www.frecle.net/cloud/skypanorama.zip
http://www.frecle.net/cloud/skypanorama.zip
jestermon
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2011, 12:59:06 PM »
the link is working :Thanks C.
http://www.frecle.net/cloud/skypanorama.zip
There ya go A.
The server was probably down for "updates".. Best to always give a few days if a link is down, ya never know when it may just spring to "life" again. lol