Sky (Legacy 3DS MAX)

Sky modeling

You can create as many Sky objects as you want.

To create a Sky object

1. Create a Dummy object.

2. Initialize the parameters of the Sky inside the Dummy user buffer.

3. Create the actual mesh to represent the Sky:

   • Sky Mesh Shader

Simple Sky with textured mesh

Tag

$Sky

Code example

This is a code example for a simple sky.

$Sky

{

szType = Simple

szMesh = MeshSky

}

Parameters

szType

• Set szType = Simple.

• This is the type of sky to create.

bVisible

• Indicates if the sky is immediately visible or not.

• Default: True.

• Range: True or False.

szName

• Indicates the mesh that makes up the sky.

• This mesh must not have hierarchies.

• Assign the SkyTxt shader to the mesh.