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Drawing the skybox to a (dynamic) cubemap

by Manoel Neto · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 08/21/2006 (8:51 am) · 2 replies

I reached a point where I need the sky to appear on dynamic cubemaps, but it won't render no matter what. When I set the render masks, seems the Sky::renderSkyBox() cannot properly render the sky textures. It smells like a matrix issue, but the sky rendering code is sorta confusing (it seems to do way more things than it sohuld need to get the skybox rendered).

Does anyone have a clue on why the skybox would fail to render to the cubemap?
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Torque Owner Jeremiah Fulbright
#1
08/21/2006 (12:27 pm)
Interesting... There have been some issues for us with the dynamic cubemap (which I had posted about), but when it worked, the skybox was rendering fine on its own to the cubemap (reflectiveSet)... If this is part of your custom classes, then I'm not sure

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08/23/2006 (7:31 am)
I got it to show up on the cubemaps, well, sort of. I did a quick hack in the calcPoints function, to make the skybox points in the [-1, 1] range, and disabled the renderBan rendering. The skybox is drawing, but it doesn't look quite right from some angles (it seems plit up/wrapped around, it's very weird).

This is crazy, I'm almost scrapping the whole sky rendering code and writing my own, or making it to use a shader and have more control on how it's rendered.