Sci Fi Skydome is a 3ds Max scene of a stylized alien sky, suitable for video/films, animations, stills and games. This low poly scene contains a hemisphere skydome, a fictional ringed planet similar to Saturn, two moons, a set of original textures and several animated effects.

Use Sci Fi Skydome to turn any landscape, terrain or cityscape into a fantasy world in outer space.

Sci Fi Skydome has been tested in the UDK game engine and is game ready.

The haze on the planet uses a simple, optional flange with opacity maps, and does not require any third party plugins or atmospheric effects. Please note: for flybys of the planet, the flange must be animated to remain perpendicular to the camera.

All renders are default scanline.


Features

Product includes:

Skydome with starfield, nebulae and galaxies
Large ringed planet with optional haze, to resemble gas giant
Two moons, one with low resolution texture, one with higher resolution texture.
6 target directional lights
14 original textures – 10 diffuse maps, 3 normal maps, one opacity map
9 3ds Max materials
Two “star cones” for creating space flight animations with moving starfields, located above skydome
Animated meteors
Animated pulsing sun(star)
An animated, pulsing “Crab Nebula” (looping - 30 seconds at 30 FPS)
(Note: except for the Crab Nebula, all animated elements use 3ds Max 9 atmospheric effects, and will not work in other programs)
Over 9 pages of Instructions and Tips For Use

Textures:

All textures are .tga file format. All texture resolutions are powers of two.

Main Sky Texture 4096 X 4096
Planet Texture 1024 X 2048
Planet Haze 1024 X 512
Planet Haze (Top View) 1024 X 1024
Planet Haze Mask 512 X 512
Planet Ring 1024 X 1024 with alpha channel mask
Crab Nebula (2) 512 X 512 with alpha channel masks
Hi resolution moon 2048 X 1024 with normal map
Low resolution moon 512 X 256 with normal map
Star Cones 1024 X 1024


Extras:

Extra files include:

Original .psd (Photoshop) file of sky texture, 5760 X 5760, layers preserved, for creating custom skies
Starfield texture 4096 X 4096 without nebulae for alternative, simpler sky
Optional hi res Crab Nebula textures (2) 1280 X 1280 with alpha channel masks

Please Note: Planet ring has overlapping UVs, but they are perfectly aligned, have been tested in the UDK game engine, and should not cause problems for game use.