Need SkyBox help!

[Verminad]

I have been having trouble creating skyboxes. I have looked at the unreal wiki and a bunch of other tutorials, but i still cant get it right. I know how to set up the the skyzone and get it to display, but i cant figure out how to get rid of the top squeeze of textures. Tried the Skypatch but that didnt work well. What am i doing wrong? how to i create a seemless sky?

Edit: Im using the hemisphere static mesh

-Should i apply a plane of alpha clouds to the top?

-Or am i going about this in the wrong way?

[DingBat]

Sounds like you're almost all the way there.

The best way to sanity check how you're doing is to look at the existing maps. Take a look at any of the official maps to see how we get rid of the texture lines at the top of the skydome.

If that doesn't help, let me know.

[Amerikaner]

I didnt spend much time researching but I was wondering about this as well. Is there supposed to be a set of 5 textures that make up the sides?

[FlashPanHunter]

Its a static mesh dome in a separate subtracted cube. To make things easy, open an official map, copy the subtraction brush with everything inside of it, and paste it into your level. voila, new skybox

[Verminad]

Thx for your quick replies, I took FlashPanHunters advice and prefabed a couple official map skyboxes. (Talk about saving some time) Now i can work more on the ground rather then the sky.

[Greenhell]

Originally Posted by Verminad

Thx for your quick replies, I took FlashPanHunters advice and prefabed a couple official map skyboxes. (Talk about saving some time) Now i can work more on the ground rather then the sky.

That's the way to do it, why reinvent the wheel, when there are so many kick-*** skyboxes available from Tripwire

[Mauser_72]

Originally Posted by FlashPanHunter

Its a static mesh dome in a separate subtracted cube. To make things easy, open an official map, copy the subtraction brush with everything inside of it, and paste it into your level. voila, new skybox

Hello. I did this and I get my skybox, but theres no light coming from it it seems. The ground area is very dark, black really. How do I get a nice lighting effect? Like sunlight coming down at a certain angle?

Thanks.

EDIT: Sorry figured it out. It's been awhile since I've used unrealed heh.