Skybox is gray..? | Source Engine | Page 1

rich fox Apr 5, 2024, 8:38 PM

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I just took all the skyboxes from CSGO cuz I map in Portal 2. Dragged and dropped them into the proper files, but when I rendered my map, all the geometry and models were invisible and all I could see is the skybox. No problem, I wrote down the solution to that. Open the skybox's VMT files, and in each one of them, replace "sky" with "Unlitgeneric", (quotation marks included) and remove any $ignore z. On my old computer that'd fix it right up, but this time, it just made the skybox gray. What's going on??

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Also no I don't have a light_environment yet. But the skybox texture itself should still be visible, no?

marble crow Apr 6, 2024, 1:27 AM

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you changed the skybox in the map properties thing to the correct ones right?

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in L4D2 at least the skyboxes need to be _hdr or they wont show up might be a similar issue here? Because for me that fixed the 2d preview

rich fox Apr 6, 2024, 4:53 PM

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marble crow in L4D2 at least the skyboxes need to be _hdr or they wont show up might be a si...

Yeah I entered the name into the skybox part of the map properties.

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And I’m pretty sure it does have hdr in it

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I copied the name

rich fox Apr 8, 2024, 4:25 AM

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Does anyone know why the skybox appears gray in-game?

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Everything else like the sunlight and stuff works just fine, but after I fixed the skybox, instead of working properly the texture is gray.

rich fox Apr 16, 2024, 5:09 PM

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What reasons would there be for the skybox to appear gray?

red canyon Apr 16, 2024, 6:06 PM

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wrong vtf version, files in the wrong folder, wrong folder typed in the .vmt , wrong shader in the vmt, skies don't work in the game, file need to be packed into vpk before game can read them ,,

#Skybox is gray..?