[REL] Custom Skybox

Well, I just installed it using pamm on Linux and it works fine too? I'll have to test it on a Mac then.

Any way we could get the mod to randomize the backdrops?

Not in-game, as far as I'm aware, the path is hard-coded in the binary. You could make a script that randomises it before launching PA though.

No - Green cube is a bug. It is gross and horrible and awful and I hate it.

You wouldn't believe how many perfectly happy screenshots have been ruined because of a stupidly placed skybox horizon.



####RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE####

/Rage.

just wanted to get that off my chest

Are you talking about the known issues?

Err yeah.

I mean, it's a really annoying bug in Vanilla PA. You go to take a screen shot of the night sky and BAM.

Uhm, so... actually, this might be a bug in the texture editor. I fixed a bug a while ago with minimaps being generated incorrectly in the A8R8G8B8 format, which is what the skyboxes use. I thought those minimaps weren't actually used, so I never bothered to make new binaries, but I played around with it for a bit and it seems that the fuzzy stuff around the edges might be generated by the minimaps rather then the full size image. I'll release new binaries later today. (Or if you are impatient, you can compile your own, since the code is on GitHub.)

Updated to 1.1.

• Fixed the fog in cube's corner issue
  
• Reconverted the skyboxes' pictures in this patch.
• Added Eta Carinae Nebula skybox

In the lastest patch of DeathByDenim's papa texture editor, he fixed the fog in the corner issue instead of the visible cube edges but that's still a bug fix.

If you use a very dark skybox like "Milky Way", you can't see the cube's edges so these kinds of skyboxes are "bug-free"
Avoid using bright skyboxes because the edges are too visible.

Updated to 1.2

• Removed the different skybox folders to make the mod lighter as more skyboxes are available
  
• Added a readme how to use the mod
• Download different skyboxes here and copy paste them in *userName*\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\mods\CustomSkybox\pa\terrain\sky\textures

That website is useful but is there any way you could put of sample images of the skyboxes along with the download link, like just mirrored from imgur or something?

This would help you with bandwidth so that I know which galaxies I am downloading first

I was thinking about this, it's definetely useful. I'll do it tomorrow.

That's only true for Windows though. For Linux it is ~/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/mods/CustomSkybox/pa/terrain/sky/textures and for Mac it is ~/Library/Application Support/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/mods/CustomSkybox/pa/terrain/sky/textures

Thanks, i'll add this.

Could you also put maybe the best three at the top as recommended or something? You should probably put that link in your mod's description on PAMM too.

Added access to albums on imgur.
Added three recommended skyboxes : Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy with yellow nebula, Milky Way galaxy with the Crab Nebula, Milky Way galaxy with the Eagle Nebula. Sorry for the lack of anchors, for some reason, they were buggy.

looks great! Except they're all rar files and many people don't have a rar extracting program. You should probably make those zips.

Oh okay, i thought it was a universal file format. I'll change that.

sadly it isn't.

Wait what? People don't have Winrar/7zip? WHY NOT!?

because laziness. I have one but many people don't so rar only downloads can be quite annoying for them.