I can't figure out how to set a texture as the world background in the GE. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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$\begingroup$ Do you mean like a skybox? Add a really big cube or sphere, flip the normals, and put the texture on that. $\endgroup$– X-27 is done with the networkCommented Aug 16, 2016 at 14:50
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$\begingroup$ I've tried, but I found blender right as cycles was becoming prominent, and I never really learned to use blender internal. A few screenshots of a material setup would be very much appreciated. $\endgroup$– Nobodyknows2202Commented Aug 17, 2016 at 2:03
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You could do this with a sky box, or a sky dome - the process is basically the same. In my opinion, sky domes look better than sky boxes, so I'll tell how to do that.
First step - add a sphere. Enter edit mode, and make it big. really big. (about as big as the sky) Select all faces, and click "flip normals". This will make it so you see the faces from the inside of the sphere, not the outside. Then, add a material. name it something like, "sky dome," or, if your like me and usually don't bother renaming things, keep it as "Material," "Material.001," "Material.002," (Etc.)
Now we need a texture. It shouldn't be hard to find a skydome texture, the one I use often I got from textures.com (back when it was still cgtextures). You should be able to select the sphere, and UV unwrap it with the default sphere projection. Depending on what texture you find, you may want to delete the bottom half of the sphere before trying to unwrap it)
Most people will tell you to set the material to "Shadeless." However, you get more control over the brightness by moving the "emission" value up and down. 0 is normal material. 1 is pretty close to what shadeless would look like, and 2 is much brighter. Plus, when using the Emission setting, lamps will effect the sky, (which you may, or may not want, actually, depending on your specific case)
The same method would apply to a cube, only you'd need a different texture, and you'd be using a cube instead of a sphere.
answered Aug 17, 2016 at 3:53
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$\begingroup$ Is this possible with a blender generated texture? $\endgroup$ Commented Aug 17, 2016 at 13:36
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$\begingroup$ no. generated textures don't work in the BGE, you'll need to use a UV map. $\endgroup$ Commented Aug 17, 2016 at 17:15
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Background:
- add a background scene via scene actuator
- ensure the camera of the background scene is showing an object with your desired texture (e.g. a plane)
Be aware this background is static.
