#skyboxes

But i mean... holy shit. its beautiful. this has to be one of, if not my #1 favourite updates for environmental design.

i love the bichromatic lights and the ruins, even if in gameplay, it makes things difficult.

skyboxes on this one are interesting. a lot of rooms have their own skybox. most of the rooms dont have skyboxes or just have lights. but the ones that exist all seem to be right next to the rooms that use them, which is convenient for me.

Suda's skybox. i believe this is the regular void skybox. maybe darker.

Teshin's skybox.

New loka's room might be my favourite. the greenery fighting off the ink just does it for me. Same with simaris's room, though i wonder who left their big ass footprints on the floor.

Simaris's room appears to use life support capsules in the walls.

Frostyfest doesn't appear to have its own skybox, however here's in order: Springfest, Summer Nights, Splatoween, Grand Festival

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Here's a collection of sites where you get materials, textures, skyboxes, HDRIs, and the like!

http://texturer.com/sub72/ Free textures that can be used for personal or commercial projects.

Open Game Art A collect of textures for games released under various licenses such as creative commons.

https://textures.pixel-furnace.com/ Free textures for non-commercial and commercial projects. Credits are not required but appreciated.

https://www.clipartmax.com/ A collection of transparent pngs that can be used in game projects, but it seems to be mostly copyrighted stuff, so I strongly recommend only using these for free stuff like mods, fan games, etc

https://www.renderhub.com/seamless-textures Paid site where you can purchase textures and materials.

https://www.textures-resource.com/ A site that collect textures ripped from video games. Not usable in commercial projects, but you may be able to use these for mods, fan games, etc. Site also features skyboxes from games!

https://www.textures.com/ A site providing both paid and free textures for your projects.

https://3dtextures.me/ Free Creative Commons 0 textures you can use for your projects.

https://polyhaven.com/ Free textures that can be used for personal or commercial projects. Site also features HDRIs which may also be usable as skyboxes!

https://ambientcg.com/ Free textures and HDRIs!

CG Trader Kind of a confusing/messy interface on this site, but they do have free textures!

https://www.cgbookcase.com/textures/ free creative commons 0 textures.

https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com/ Royalty free textures that can be used for both personal and commercial projects.

https://cgaxis.com/all-access-v5/ Site providing both free and paid textures. Registration is required to download the free stuff.

https://quixel.com/megascans/free A collection of free textures and models, seems to require downloaded software and/or an installation of unreal engine.

Fab Related to Quixel, another source for free textures to use in unreal engine.

https://texture.ninja/ a collection of public domain textures.

Peace Keepers Level Skyboxes

Feel free to edit, copy, and redistribute these images however you want!

i have Returned from Hiatus

People keep talking about the moon being bigger or brighter in the lead up to Endwalker, but I’m not sure if that’s the case or wishful thinking, given what little we know of EW, and how the combatants all looked up as the moon broke through to shine down on the fields of Carteneau at the end of 5.55, “Death Unto Dawn.”

These images are taken in the Churning Mists, near Moghome. Skies are Clear/Fair. Time, location, and weather can change a lot, so I tried to keep things close.

C’oretta has not started 5.3 yet. The top set is PunchyCat at about 11:20-11:30ish Eorzea time. First (top left) image is my usual Gshade gameplay filter, the second (top right) is with my Gshade overlay turned off.

Aeryn of course is entirely current on MSQ. Second set is rushing back to the Churning Mists on Aeryn, just after Midnight Eorzea time, same/similar weather, and same deal with the Gshade filters; first image (bottom left) is on, second (bottom) is off.

If there is a difference in the moon’s presentation, it’s across the board and unaffected by MSQ progress--which is not generally how that works, but the moon is also part of the skyboxes, which would work differently from most objects. Unless they changed out every skybox on the Source? Which seems unlikely, but I’m also not sure how they arranged things in 1.0.

Also would they really repeat the 1.0 ending like that? There’s nothing about the story this time to indicate the actual moon’s coming down/closer, or even actually reflecting/generating more light, we just know there’s some sort of focus there concerning Zodiark.

Haunted Towers