How do you make a simple skybox?

[Chief23]

topic ^

Thanks

 

[blackflag486]

make a box, get the texture tool texture it under tools/skybox and copy paste the box then make it 1 colume smaller on each side and press ctrl + Shift + C, and it should carve out the middle. there you go

 

[Raeven0]

...I heard carving--carving is bad.

Skybox is an excessively generic term. Do you want to put a sky over your map? (Tutorial~) Do you want to make a 3D skybox? (Technical description, long-winded and seemingly misleading tutorial, Interlopers tutorial) Do you have a set of images that you want to make into a sky? (Tutorial~) Do you want to make the textures to make into a sky? (I haven't tried this tutorial so I cannot vouch for its accuracy~)

 

[Mapster]

If you just want a simple sky box, just make a box over the top of your map with the toolsskybox texture and voila, you have sky.
Make another box outside the map with the toolsskybox texture, add a sky_camera in the middle of it and add what ever you want.