How To Make a Unity Skybox with Photoshop

It's not as easy or pretty but, I guess it gets the job done.

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[zackakai]

"Now you may notice this fairly major error that makes the sky look like the inside of a giant cube, but I'm just going to say it doesn't matter so I don't have to address it." Brilliant.

[kreamykappa]

Rather than blocking in the guides manually, you can use View>New Guide Layout and set it to 4 columns and three rows.

[AnthonyBaumgartner]

If I recall correctly, in photoshop you can use the web slice tool to mark each image to be exported rather than crop several times. It should save you time if you wish to go back and repaint or re-export the skybox.

[michaelday]

I was playing around in GIMP trying to fix the hard edges issue and found that Filters -> Distorts -> Lens Distortion : Main -80, followed by Filters -> Distorts -> Lens Distortion : Main -75; Edge +25 made the hard edges go away and resulted in a nearly perfect skybox. At those settings, it's even smoother than Unity's default skybox (which I never realized actually does have some minor hard edges if you look close enough).

[manobro]

fast, direct, and efficient. keep the great work man

[brainfog]

the best tutorial ive ever seen. Thats how every tutorial should get ruled by

[TheDvilHimself]

You can automate output with slices. You would have to delete some blanks and rename, but it beats doing one by one.

[motis]

You can use Panoramic shader, instead of 6-sided now, to just import the 360 image

[onx]

Clear and Easy to follow, and in Windows. Very helpful

[Firecloak]

Great explanation! I was able to make a nice skybox with some of the default brushes in PS. I also used the warp tool to make my clouds warp upwards

[Kruspe]

I fucking love the speed of your tutorials. Finally someone who's not wasting my time.

[michelleknobloch]

1:38 example
1:49 cloud repeat
2:11 export

[beeeean]

There's a 3D plugin in photoshop where you can directly paint onto a 3D skydome

[KaiVArts]

Subbed just for that intro. Good quality.

[_tommunist_]

This is a very professional tutorial. Good job man! Subbed!

[umaroxp]

Mr Blendcraft. You have the best tutorials. That is all. Good day.

[ZeyFight]

Thanks you very much !!! I finally found out why my two images don't match. You just had to switch from right to left and left to right...

[aileencitap]

Quick, easy and right to the point! Good tutorial thanks!

[mohamedchamas_]

filer>distort>spherize on maybe 80% can make the cubemap spherical!

[sqiib]

Fantastic tutorial, super useful. Thanks ! :D