[WIP] s117 sky

I think one of the big problems right now is that the terrain has that tiling canopy detail map on it, while the mountain is very smooth and plain looking. Jcap's picture totally shows all the detail on the h3 mountain. However, in h3 most of this detail is lost due to the atmospheric fog they use in their skybox. In CE we don't have the leisure of using that, so I have to fake the fog where I can. @Jcap, that's a bad way to fake fog here. If I want to, I can just texture models from above and give a fog-coloured gradient to them. This is what I did with the modeled hills.

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Originally Posted by annihilation

I think you have to much shadowing on the clouds.
And aren't clouds usually above mountains?

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It's a very tall mountain.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2465/...7f55303f2c.jpg


update 2:

Clouds need to be a bit more blue to match how faded the mountain is, but other wise it's perfect.

It still looks amazing...

I think it looks better.

Most of the sky you won't see anyway, just like in H3. I'm focusing on this part up front. I agree that the darker parts of the clouds need to be bluer--their highlights should stay yellowish though due to the sun shining on them. The sun is also a bit big, so I still have the fix that. The clouds behind the mountain look low res there, but I've fixed that already.

Little odd looking but pretty good :D

I just did a lot of work on the colouring and I think it's a huge improvement:



You can also see that in addition to the normal sun, I have added a lens flare that shows up when the sun is at the edge of the view. It sort of makes the sun flash when it enters the view and gives a cool effect. When not near the edge of the screen, the sun will look like any other of halo sun.

e: compare to this h3 shot

[thumb]http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8929/9421027full.jpg[/thumb]

Will most definitely be interesting to see with the map.

BLOOD GULCH THAT SHIT! THAT'D BE SO AWESOME!

Jk, lol.

I look forward to seeing this in a map soon. Awesome Job +rep. =)

Yeah, that looks much better. Keep doing whatever it is you're doing.