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Started by dazscott Mar 21, 2005 at 8:05 AM 2 replies 650+ views
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dazscott
dazscott
Hi guys, anyone know of any tutorials on how to render a simple skybox around my 3d scene.
mrmrcoleman
mrmrcoleman
Google has quite a few links to various skybox related pages. Should be something there for you.

Mark Coleman
Evil Steve
Evil Steve
Google comes up with quite a few links, but I don't know of any I can recommend, sorry.

It's a fairly straightforward process, once you know how it's done. You just render the skybox before anything else, and you rotate it with respect to the camera, but you don't move it. That way you're unable to reach the edges of your box. If you're using a skybox, you probably don't need to clear the render target, only the Z-buffer, since the skybox will fill the view.
rjackets
rjackets
Just a quick addition to the previous post. You will want to turn off z-write when drawing the skybox so that you don't get funky clipping effects.

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