Skydome Maker

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From Markus Kothe

The other day a was searching the internet for some skydomes to use for easy and nice reflections and AO light. When I didn’t found any I liked I said to myself…

“Why don’t I make some myself? Blender should be capable of that”

So now I have set up a system for easy making of sky domes. Skymaker is available for download at it’s homepage

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    • Aka

      nice

    • http://craigsnedeker.blogspot.com/ Craig Snedeker

      Pretty cool… how to I install it?

    • http://www.freezingmoon.org Dread Knight

      I never makes skydomes myself because im too lazy xD

    • http://spotmeon.blogspot.com gauavanim

      Way Cool MAn :)

    • Hai

      Great tool! Planning to use it in a project soon.

    • Gwenouille

      Neat and simple, very nice !
      Thanks for sharing this method !

    • FinSt3v3

      Great! I dunno how long I was trying to make sky domes when I was struggling through learning Maya, (a long time ago before I found Blender)

      Well done de done!

    • aws357

      “Ooooh I don’t like these stuff, why don’t I make some myself? Blender should be capable of that”

      <—- That is the magic of Blender :p

    • anycolorilike

      Thanks, I found this really helpful! Nice results.

    • 2le

      There are awesome the ones you made.

    • blendercross

      Great – nice “tool” !

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      Nice method.

    • http://www.qso.com/carlautta/colin/Beta/ Tynach

      I use this method all the time. At one time I was going to release a “Sky Materials” .blend file with a lot of cool skys I’ve done in Blender, but never got the time.

      And, to make the clouds look better, I suggest turning up the Noise Depth.

    • Gryphon

      This is extremely helpful. Thanks Markus!
      If only I had a dollar for every time I heard “I couldn’t find any, so I made one myself.” Or better yet, if only I could make one myself every time I needed some resource…

    • MrE

      Thanks! i gained some new insight in lighting a scene. I’m going to play around a lot with this thing i’m sure.

    • Master Danix

      This tool can be very useful for many things

      Thanks Markus Kothe

    • madcello

      Thank you, Markus Kothe!
      Very clever!

    • tyy

      good one for newbieess dude exercised commonsense if only more blender users did that we would have a blender with lotta stuff makers eg clothes maker(needed ) ,shoe maker(needed), and alot more to think of if only i knew as much of python as the guys who use the bge lol till than your stuck with ya brian unless somebody makes an effort like this guy good thanls markus kothe very clever

    • Dusty

      nice! Thanks!

    • slurp

      I’ll never use skydomes. Or are we ten years before??
      I use HDRI!!

    • 3DMainiac

      @FinSt3v3: are you mad or crazy???!!!

    • http://www.djphotoduck.com djphotoduck

      Thank you Markus. This is awesome.

    • http://darsam.spaces.live.com DramaKing

      It’s nice to know about this program, but there’s no anlysis of the program, description, or material on using it with Blender.

    • http://www.pixelsociety.tv BOLANSKY

      nice tool men!!! Thanks, this is awesome. :)

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