Skybox general

[Anonymous No.7139472]

Post your favorite, most comfy or most creepy skyboxes

[Anonymous No.7139489]

>>7139472
Obligatory

[Anonymous No.7139491]

>>7139472
I always love those late noon-evening kind of skyboxes. I could post Spyro's stuff but I like these from Ace Combat 3 too

[Anonymous No.7139497]

>>7139472
This one was comfy as a kid but now it's creepy because of the twin towers there

[Anonymous No.7139502]

>>7139472
>>7139497
God I love me some shit ass ps1 textures.

[Anonymous No.7139504]

I love modern metropolises at night with PSOne-era graphics

[Anonymous No.7139505]

>>7139491
Oh spyro has the best skyboxes without a doubt

[Anonymous No.7139507]

The GOAT

[Anonymous No.7139512]

That brief cliffside section in Lost World in *mwah*

[Anonymous No.7139514]

>>7139504
The Heaven and Hell track from this is super comfy including the sky box. It feels like a place you would want to visit.

[Anonymous No.7139517]

>Fighter jets streak by

[Anonymous No.7139518]

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>>7139491
That looks phenomenal for a PS1 game.

[Anonymous No.7139570]

>>7139523
Was just about to post this. When I was a little kid I used to call all the battle stages the following:

>Big Donut
Lava Donut
>Block Fort
Block Fart
>Skyscraper
Star Wars
>Double Decker
Double Quacker

[Anonymous No.7139587]

This map was exclusive to the PS2 and Dreamcast ports of Unreal Tournament and intended for a boss fight, but it had a very nice animating skybox and a comfy OST track. Pretty sure it was ported to the PC version too if anyone's interested.

https://youtu.be/VIrXzU9ipB0

[Anonymous No.7139594]

Powerslave had some cool ones

[Anonymous No.7139614]

>>7139512
That's a good one, although I have a soft spot for the City at Dawn one. That stage really conveys the atmosphere of a busy city early in the morning.

[Anonymous No.7139710]

>>7139514
the whole game has a very dreamy-comfy magic going on. It my feelgood game

[Anonymous No.7139738]

>>7139472
Awesome screenshot. I fucking love Toy Story 2. Was one of my favorite PSX games as a kid.

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>>7139491
Posting Spyro is cheating imo. So many beautiful skyboxes in those games. Insomniac really weren't fucking around.

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>>7139504
>baked in green lighting at night
SOUL

[Anonymous No.7139867]

>>7139518
I still don't understand how Spyro is able to draw the main game, which is pretty detailed and large scale, but also have enough triangle budget to render a 3D mesh skybox. That planet and its rings in the back isn't cheap on polys.

[Anonymous No.7139868]

>>7139867
played it recently and though the same thing. overall pretty technically impressive for a ps1 game.

[Anonymous No.7139878]

>>7139867
Ps1 had thw highest polygon throughput of its generation, when you aren't texturing polygons you get high precision verticies. Spyro used this for level of detail tricks too, a big green hill in the distance can just be a big green low poly shaded mound. If you get close it'll tessellate and texture itself with a minimalist texture. A few games utilized this technique excellently.

[Anonymous No.7139890]

>>7139878
I get that gouraud shading is twice as cheap as a textured polygon, but it's weird to think PS1 maxes out textured polygon budget easily, but if you start moving to gouraud polygons suddenly the sky's the limit heh

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[Anonymous No.7139903]

>>7139893
PUURRAAASSUUUMMMAAAAA

[Anonymous No.7139912]

>>7139890
How else could ff7 have ps2 polycounts in battles? Really amazing stuff!

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>>7139502
The second one looks n64 to me based on how blurry the floor texture is. PS1 never looks like Vaseline smeared dogshit like that one, that’s N*ntendo’s thing

[Anonymous No.7139938]

>>7139890
It is almost as if gouraud shading is cheap.
And N64 can't do more than 100.000 per second on vanilla microcode, which was a mistake. It can do up to 1mill with modified microcode.
PS1 can do about 180.000 with some texture mapping per second, and a bit more with gouraud.

I don't want to know how much a modern GPU can manage. Modern render rates are buried beneath layers of additional shader stuff.

[Anonymous No.7139941]

>>7139930
Yeah, ps1 was more about the pixel vomit and the incorrect perspective.

[Anonymous No.7139946]

>>7139502
>>7139930
pretty sure both are from the N64 version, or Dreamcast.
PS1 would look more jaggy.

[Anonymous No.7139964]

>>7139938
Another big favor for the ps1 is the performance analyzer developed by psygnosis. This was a standard tool for ps1 devs which allowed them to see exactly where and what was hurting performance and allowed the ps1 to massively improve fidelity of its games. No console had anything like this before this point.

[Anonymous No.7139969]

>>7139861
nice, what game?

[Anonymous No.7139973]

>>7139969
sorry about that, i just saw the picture's name

[Anonymous No.7139997]

>>7139832
is that the one from bloodlines?

[Anonymous No.7140071]

>>7139997
Yeah, I think it's from the Griffith Park level. I never really paid attention to the skyboxes until my last playthrough, but they're pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.7140106]

>>7139587
https://unrealarchive.org/maps/unreal-tournament/deathmatch/F/dm-flux_e2d75688.html

[Anonymous No.7140114]

Can't find better image but whatever

[Anonymous No.7140149]

>>7140071
i love how the city looks from the malkavian's mansion, with all the little lights from cars moving in the darkness
somehow you can achieve so much more atmosphere with limited assets than you can with modern AAA graphics-plosions

[Anonymous No.7140174]

>>7139930
>>7139941
>>7139946
lol they're my own screenshots from epsxe

[Anonymous No.7140180]

>>7139594
i wanna play this game but dosbox is a bitch

[Anonymous No.7140184]

>>7139504
>>7139861
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQ073Q9oPs

Jesus that's really impressive

[Anonymous No.7140264]

>>7139570
>double quacker
What did he mean by this?

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>>7140180
The PC version is mediocre, try Powerslave EX

[Anonymous No.7140479]

>>7139472
>>7139497
I'm getting this game for Christmas and these images made me more excited for it.

Also, pic related is one of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.7140560]

>>7139517
> figure out the weird way Half Life does their skybox
> basically the entire sky is in a tiny box hidden outside of the level
> You can noclip into it and stomp around like godzilla
> shoot the RPG at the edge and create blast marks
> go back to the normal part of the level and there are now giant blast marks in the sky

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>>7140560
That's still how Source engine games do it... and likely Source 2 as well but not retro and I don't have any S2 game to confirm it.

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>>7139505
The skyboxes were polygonal, too.

[Anonymous No.7140883]

>>7140479
>I'm getting this game for Christmas

I got it for Christmas 20 years ago

[Anonymous No.7140925]

>>7140264
CAN YOU QUACK
[spoiler[CAN YOU QUICK LIKE A DUUUCK WHEN YOU SUUUCK

[Anonymous No.7140929]

>>7140560
Not weird at all. A lot of engines did this.

[Anonymous No.7140930]

>>7139518
Too low res

[Anonymous No.7140932]

>>7139845
I visited the Moon Hill in 2010. Wasn't much different to that picture.

[Anonymous No.7140936]

>>7139861
that shitty meme needs to stop

[Anonymous No.7140969]

>>7139472
Damn I remember this shit as a kid on PC. I thought the tree was the most secret place ever. I don't think I beat the game, forget where I got stuck. Or I continued playing bionicles instead of it

[Anonymous No.7140984]

>>7139750
I was just scrolling down until I saw Doom 64

nice job anon

[Anonymous No.7141052]

>>7140925
I'm really surprised someone else remembers g.o.a.t.

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>>7140560
Halo did this and there is a multiplayer level where you could glitch your body into the skybox orb outside the level and there would be a giant body in the sky for everyone to see.

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>>7139497
https://youtu.be/R9qdZNZPbXY?t=28

[Anonymous No.7142904]

>>7139489
fpbp

[Anonymous No.7142923]

>>7139927
*intense music starts playing*

[Anonymous No.7143007]

>>7139587
>dat tracker music

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[Anonymous No.7144190]

>>7143718
Fun fact: WTC was originally supposed to be shown in this skybox, but they ran out of memory so they excused in with ingame lore stating it was destroyed by terrorists years earlier.

...this game released a whole year and three months before 9/11.

[Anonymous No.7144216]

>>7139868
I'm a few hours after not playing it since I was a wee lad. It's absolutely beautiful. I'm a big ratchet and clank fan so I feel like I've done my self a disservice by waiting so long to play it.

[Anonymous No.7144262]

cs_office

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>>7140714
the first battlefront game was such a gem.

[Anonymous No.7145590]

>>7144190
That doesn't make much sense. That background is pretty clearly a low resolution photograph. One with the WTC would take up about the same memory.

[Anonymous No.7145594]

Not necessarily favorite, just coolest one I've seen recently.

[Anonymous No.7145637]

>>7140184
this could easily pass for ps2

[Anonymous No.7145651]

>>7145590
One should be able to find the original image used which they used for the skybox to see how it was edited. I don't think they included any flavor text on the wtc in the game.

[Anonymous No.7145678]

>>7140479
>I'm getting this game for Christmas and these images made me more excited for it.

wut

[Anonymous No.7145691]

>>7139507
this

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