Game environments
Stylized skyboxes – how to match the sky to your art style
Why a photoreal sky breaks a stylized game, and how to match palette, value and style: painterly, low poly and anime skies, and how...
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Game environments
Skyboxes and environment lighting for games: step-by-step setup in Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot and Blender, texture size and memory, and matching the sky to your art style. Start with the complete guide to game skyboxes.
Game environments
How to add an HDRI in Blender for world lighting
Add an HDRI to Blender's world: the Environment Texture node, rotating it with a Mapping node, strength, and showing a different background.
Game environments
Skybox texture size and memory, explained
How much memory does a skybox use? The maths for 4K and 8K, BC7 vs ASTC compression, mipmaps and the seam line, and settings...
Game environments
How to make a skybox in Unity from a 360° image
Make a skybox in Unity from a 360° image: import settings, the Panoramic and Cubemap shaders, lighting from the sky, URP and HDRP, and...
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