HotU Skybox Tutorial

How to add a skybox to your area, step by step.

The first and most important step: You need to enable skyboxes in the game: You need to check that new checkbox in the Video Settings section in the game's options menu. If you do not enable this checkbox, you will not be able to see any skyboxes.

To add a skybox to your areas in the toolset, you need to got to the area properties of the area, then open the Visuals page just like you do when you set options like wind, weather and lighting. There is a new dropdown box at the bottom of this page where you can select different skies.

Making the skybox look good with your area will require you to play around with the fog and fog distance settings on the area visual properties as well, depending on your area you need to do some fine tuning to make them play nice with the fog.

That's it. Save your area, jump into the game and pan your camera up … and watch the show!