I haven't seen any recent threads involving skyboxes, and was wondering if you could still add custom skyboxes in tf2, and use them on all maps.
An example of it is this fragmovie from Toss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw34mVeHDVs&feature=youtu.be
Anyone have any idea of how to do this?
I haven't seen any recent threads involving skyboxes, and was wondering if you could still add custom skyboxes in tf2, and use them on all maps.
An example of it is this fragmovie from Toss:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw34mVeHDVs&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
Anyone have any idea of how to do this?
There is no way to do it without config cheats in insecure mode (or actual cheat clients), you can't do this while playing. There's a reason you only see this in frag movies. You could maybe get it working via preloading as it's just a texture replacement really but there's no telling how often it would break on Valve servers, on community servers it would probably work.
If you're working on a frag movie, the easiest way is to just use Lawena (a glorified config loader) which has a menu for changing skyboxes (this does not work in normal games!). And if you use HLAE, do not turn off insecure mode and try to connect to normal servers, there's a risk of getting banned.
Also some community maps internally contain the skybox instead of referencing a skybox within TF2's base files. This means that on maps like reckoner, normal skybox replacements do not work and you'd have to play on an alternative version of reckoner with no skybox. So even if you were to do this, it wouldn't work on all maps.
There is no way to do it without config cheats in insecure mode (or actual cheat clients), you can't do this while playing. There's a reason you only see this in frag movies. You could maybe get it working via preloading as it's just a texture replacement really but there's no telling how often it would break on Valve servers, on community servers it would probably work.
If you're working on a frag movie, the easiest way is to just use Lawena (a glorified config loader) which has a menu for changing skyboxes (this does not work in normal games!). And if you use HLAE, [b]do not turn off insecure mode and try to connect to normal servers, there's a risk of getting banned.[/b]
Also some community maps internally contain the skybox instead of referencing a skybox within TF2's base files. This means that on maps like reckoner, normal skybox replacements do not work and you'd have to play on an alternative version of reckoner with no skybox. So even if you were to do this, it wouldn't work on all maps.
14 year old me was very confused and disappointed when only cheating tutorials showed up when i looked up “custom skyboxes tf2” on youtube
14 year old me was very confused and disappointed when only cheating tutorials showed up when i looked up “custom skyboxes tf2” on youtube
shullers14 year old me was very confused and disappointed when only cheating tutorials showed up when i looked up “custom skyboxes tf2” on youtube
Same as me. The first tutorial I found was how to have any custom skybox with nullcore.
NoNoeWayThere is no way to do it without config cheats in insecure mode, you can't do this while playing. There's a reason you only see this in frag movies.
If you're working on a frag movie, the easiest way is to just use Lawena (a glorified config loader) which has a menu for changing skyboxes (this does not work in normal games!). And if you use HLAE, do not turn off insecure mode and try to connect to normal servers, there's a risk of getting banned.
Also some community maps internally contain the skybox instead of referencing a skybox within TF2's base files. This means that on maps like reckoner, normal skybox replacements do not work and you'd have to play on an alternative version of reckoner with no skybox. So even if you were to do this, it wouldn't work on all maps.
That's a shame. I saw something about modifying map files to get custom skyboxes, and it not working on all maps, so I figured that's what you mentioned at the end. Thank you.
[quote=shullers]14 year old me was very confused and disappointed when only cheating tutorials showed up when i looked up “custom skyboxes tf2” on youtube[/quote]
Same as me. The first tutorial I found was how to have any custom skybox with nullcore.
[quote=NoNoeWay]There is no way to do it without config cheats in insecure mode, you can't do this while playing. There's a reason you only see this in frag movies.
If you're working on a frag movie, the easiest way is to just use Lawena (a glorified config loader) which has a menu for changing skyboxes (this does not work in normal games!). And if you use HLAE, [b]do not turn off insecure mode and try to connect to normal servers, there's a risk of getting banned.[/b]
Also some community maps internally contain the skybox instead of referencing a skybox within TF2's base files. This means that on maps like reckoner, normal skybox replacements do not work and you'd have to play on an alternative version of reckoner with no skybox. So even if you were to do this, it wouldn't work on all maps.[/quote]
That's a shame. I saw something about modifying map files to get custom skyboxes, and it not working on all maps, so I figured that's what you mentioned at the end. Thank you.
You used to be able to load at least blank skyboxes with cleanTF2, but valve patched that out like 5 or 6 years ago.
You used to be able to load at least blank skyboxes with cleanTF2, but valve patched that out like 5 or 6 years ago.
I know that this post has been dead for two months, but I actually managed to get custom skyboxes working.
[img]https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2053122856397888357/1CFDF8B027CB1511F972B14AB8F59C81BF453D05/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false[/img]
It also works on sv_pure servers (Such as UncleTopia):
[img]https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2053122856397894646/C99E28040298D2C1BDD436934C83E3379DF720A8/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false[/img]
The second image proves that I'm actually on UncleTopia. (Check the top-left corner of the screenshot!)
[img]https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2053122856397894775/5C42BC04D63BB242F7AD925EE30A706185466C27/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false[/img]
There is this person named "Justmed" on Game Banana who uploaded some custom skyboxes. You can download the skyboxes, they come in .rar files, and you just open it up, and place the "my_custom_folder" in your tf/custom folder. Here's a link to his Game Banana profile: https://gamebanana.com/members/2631754