Background Tutorial¶

NOTE: THIS TUTORIAL APPLIES TO VASTPARK PLAYER VERSION 1.5 BUILD 50+

Create a skybox (cubemap) texture¶

• A background asset is basically a really big box that always surrounds the viewer
  

• This box can be unwrapped and mapped to a rectangular texture. This texture is really just 6 panels, each mapping to a side of the skybox.
  

• Create your own texture (where its width is 6 times its height). Here is a skybox texture example from Horde3D in JPEG or DDS format.

Add the texture to the background asset¶

• Download an example park with background

• Unzip sky.background (you may need to rename the file extension to '.zip')

• Replace the textures/skybox.dss texture with your own cubemap texture

• Open the material/skybox.material.xml file, and replace the path textures/skybox.dds with your own texture file name

• Re-zip the geomtry, materials, and textures directories along with the skybox.scene.xml into one file

• Rename the zipped file's extension to .background, and your background asset is done!