CUBE

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Remarks:

• The sides of the sky cube are drawn at a distance of Camera.clip_far from the viewer. The sky z parameter can be used to move the cube up and down. The x, y, angle, and scale parameters are ignored.
• The sprite image must consist of 6 adjacent square frames in the following order: west, north, east, south, down, up. Thus its file name must end with '+6' and its width must be six times larger than its height. Each frame must be a power of 2 in size, like 512x512. The frames must be tiled in a way that they can be wrapped around a cube.
• Compressed images (DDS) don't support frames and thus can not be used for sky cubes. This restriction does not apply for A7.7 or above.
• A lot of sky images can be found at game artwork pages (such as http://1000skies.com/) . The sky sprite image can be put together by adding the single cube images in the order bk, rt, ft, lf, dn, up from left to right.
• Sky cube images can also be assigned to the sky box in WED, and are then automatically rendered with the CUBE flag.

Example (lite-C):

ENTITY* mountain_cube =
{
  type = "mountains+6.tga";
  flags2 = SKY | CUBE | SHOW;
  layer = 2;
  z = 30; // move 30 pixels upwards
}

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