So stretching a unit's texture will automatically strech the sky background texture? :| Why would it do that?

Nice discovery, although I'm not sure wether I understand how it works.

Lol, nice find ! Though it is possible to create real new skies, but this is way easier! Very creative !

Thanks, and the thing that's SOO much better about this is... well i haven't tried it, but you know how when you hold the mouse over a unit it gets highlighted, well, it looks EXACTLY like real lightning, the "sky" just lights up a little bit (no fake-looking zeus bolt) and it looks very realistic. I assume if you want to use it in your scen you use flash object or something.

"Highlight Unit"

same diff

Nice dicovery, im not sure how well it would work in a scx though :/

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I think he's talking about using the unit's texture as a sky, kinda like the same thing you'd do on a FPS editor, creating a skybox is simply stretching a huge box around the whole map.

Ok I'm confused lol.

Does the sky stretch or the object is simply so big it looks like the sky?

I am also confused (I should open up the editor)

It's simple, you're seeing the insides of the bolder instead of the real sky

Nice you found it out Chief..

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Nope you wheren't the first I also had discovered the fact that you can use enlarged objects in order to mimic a sky or interior background effect...but I never start any of those dumb debates lol

but anyway nice screenshot you made with this feature.

Best regards,

The Vandhaal

[This message has been edited by The Vandhaal (edited 12-04-2004 @ 07:55 PM).]

Come on, this is not dumb, we didn't know that before...

Well its not all that hard to think of making a unit real big an using it as a backgroung (sky) I would be sincerely suprised if something like this hadnt been discovered before. I am thinking my next major aom projrect might be some new skies.

[This message has been edited by Centurion_13 (edited 12-05-2004 @ 06:34 AM).]

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I think you referre to my answer Aomplayer...However I did not say it was dumb...only that I "also had discovered the fact that you can use enlarged objects in order to mimic a sky or interior background effect".

Best regards,

The Vandhaal

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but I never start any of those dumb debates lol

That's the same as saying this topic is dumb, because you never started debating about it, but Chief does now.

^ That's what I meant, Vandhaal.

Nice to see you again here, BTW!

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@Argalius and Aomplayer

Huhhh??? That setence you quoted means THAT I NEVER START ANY DUMB DEBATES ON ANY HEAVENS GAMES FORUMS so also not in the case of this discovery by The autor of this thread.

So please stop pushing my replies into a certain direction !
that really pisses me off.

This is the last thing I say in this matter within this thread (for further comments/debates please mail me and do not spamm this thread again)

ON TOPIC

Again nice find Chief and sorry about those off topic reactions

best regards,
the Vandhaal

[This message has been edited by The Vandhaal (edited 12-05-2004 @ 02:09 PM).]

Calm down?! There's no reason to get angry at all. 'Dumb debate' sounds negative. If we misunderstood you, sorry, but there's no need to get angry because of that...

Get back on topic guys, the latest tedency to get offtopic is really getting annoying now.

yes very annoying... i really dont see how you could see the boulder if it's enlarged very much wait... you couldnt put anything on the map if that's the case wouldn't the boulder be in the way? please help im very confused

Ever heard of Position Object? And of course you put the boulder last so you can place your other items first.

Also, enlarging an object doesn't change it's actual size (the space it takes up).

added.

lol, "I hate it when people ask for credit for figuring something out and then there's a huge debate about whether or not they really were first" so everyone decides to debate about whether the debate is... oh never mind anyway, has anyone tried the lightning trick, I've been kinda busy lately (working on Mock Trial stuff for school, my school's team won the national championship last year, so I have good people to learn off of). I haven't tried the lightning sky with triggers, but I tried real quick with moving the mouse over the space where the objects' actual um... space is taken up (for lack of a better term) where it highlights itself. It looked cool to me, but hey, we're all too busy debating about whether debating about not debating is worthy debating over

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What does that mean? Do you mean as placing a unit down on the map and enlarge it so big (using the j or k key) that it actually covers the whole sky? ****HUH****

I think this is pretty cool and I think I get it too. You can't use it in gameplay, though, cause then you'd just see a big object. Cool find!

Actually, if you do it right, the object is so big that unless you put the camera at an insane view the object is completely invisible. I'm using it several times in a scenario I'm making, and I make the entire scenario with the "skies" there the entire time. I put them in armies just in case I need to erase them for some reason, but I've found you really don't need to. About the people who aren't understanding this: The texture doesn't stretch so much that it "becomes the sky." What's happening is you're making the object so big that the few pixels that you're seeing of the texture are gradiently smoothed automatically by AOM, giving a sky effect. The object is so big and the texture is so far away that it moves itself behind anything else on the map. here's a stupid diagram:
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| |ŻŻŻŻ| |
| |____| |
\ ŻŻŻŻŻ /
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I know it's retarded, but anyway, the smaller square is your entire map, and the big outline around it is the object you've enlarged to take the place of the sky. Also note that as long as you have the enlarged object at a decent elevation, you can make your camera cuts much steeper downward than usual and still have a sky in the background. With the standard AOM skybox, you must have the camera almost level with the highest terrain, or else point it upward. This really takes away from many cuts that demand showing large portions of terrain while still having a sky in the background. Try it out, maybe that'll help you understand it, 'cause I don't know how else to explain it.

[This message has been edited by Chief_Thunder_ (edited 12-06-2004 @ 06:42 PM).]

Ahh, now I get it. Its cool anyway