I have a question regarding skies

[L.K.]

Hello. I am attempting to create various structures that make use of the way sky textures are rendered, here is simple example of what I mean:





I was hoping I could use this effect on walls and pillars etc. I am aware of the vanilla method of drawing skies on walls (I am hoping I can avoid this method), and I know about the line horizon special, but that would still require I have a flat bounded with the wall that has the sky flat, and it would probably look odd with a lot of movement.

Is there a way I could use the sky effect the way I would use any other texture? For example what I am trying to do in the above screenshot, is have each one of those buildings painted over with different gradient textures that always follow the player's eyes.

[Rachael]

It's a shame this topic has sat for 3 days with no response. That being said, the only ways that I know of are really hacky and will probably result in complaints from Graf so I won't even try. But if you're devilishly persistent on this, you can use a mix of transparent lines, F_SKY1, and Transfer_Heights, and possibly even portals. I can't really go into detail here because beyond this point it requires experimentation to see what works.

[Enjay]

Unfortunately, I'm not really even sure that I understand the question.

[Salad Viking]

It's a shame this topic has sat for 3 days with no response.

Actually, this topic was posted at the ZDoom forums simultaneously, where it got a couple of replies. It seems L.K. (Kassman) here decided to just use the [wiki]Line_Horizon[/wiki] special with a small border.

[Rachael]

I see... I'll just lock this one then since the other one seems to have more merit.