Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Adding a sky box and lighting
Sky boxes or sky domes are small pieces of every day magic in games. They're used to cre-
ate a mood-setting backdrop for scenes and are excellent for making areas seem larger than
they are.
Sky boxes consist of six textures, rendered on the inside of a cube, much like wallpapers.
Perceived as enclosing the world, they actually don't need to be very big since they are
rendered first in the queue. This means everything else will be drawn on top of them.
