Craft stunning skyboxes for video games and 360-degree environments with this dedicated painting editor. Draw panoramic or six-sided cubemap textures using brushes, lines, and a gradient tool to shape sky backgrounds. Add atmosphere, a sun with basic light effects, and randomized clouds or stars through customizable generators, all on layered canvases with masks.
Import your own brushes, textures, or panoramic images to fuel your designs, then export ready-to-use files for any engine or shader. A VR mode brings these photo editing tools to life on HTC Vive alongside the desktop version. Game developers and environment artists craft static skies tailored to their projects.
Skybox Painter 3D is a painting editor to draw your own customizable Skyboxes with, which can be used for the creation of videogames and other 360 degree environments.
The output of the program are panoramic or 6 sided cubemap textures for skyboxes to use with any engine or skybox shader.
The program features the following tools:
- Brushes
- Lines
- Gradient tool for the background of your sky
- Customizable Random Generator for clouds and stars
- Athmosphere
- Sun with simple Light calculations
- Layers and Layermask
- Export of panoramic or cubemap textures
- Import of own brushes and textures for the tools
- Import of panoramic images
The project does not only contain a desktop version but also a VR version of the described tools implemented for the HTC Vive.
Limitations:
The program can only be used to paint static skies (cubemap and panoramic images). No animated or procedural contents can be created.
