Different skies?

[Job]

How do you use other skies for the expansive F_Sky? Do you use Wintex and extract them from other wads, or is there a wad file that has all of the F_Sky textures you can use?

[The Ultimate DooMer]

The sky graphics are called SKY1-4 (DooM 1) and RSKY1-3 (DooM 2), load up a replacement with Wintex and rename it to the appropriate one.

But whichever sky you use will always appear as F_SKY1 in the editor, that's the name used to represent the sky.

[Job]

Ok -- but I was mainly referring to things like the starry skies and skies that aren't included in the Doom wads.

[Enjay]

The Ultimate DooMer's post covers the basic method.

Find a graphic you want and replace sky1-4 or rsky1-3 with it. The name of the sky texture used is determined by which level you make your map for. If you are making a replacement map01, replace rsky1.

You can extract them from other wads (you should ask author permission before releasing). Heh, I found a nice starry one being used as the background on some pr0n site. :-)

There are other things that can be done. A 1024 wide sky wraps round fully with no repeating and some ports allow you to specify a different sky for each level - sometimes even different skies within a level.

In most cases, however, F_SKY1 is the flat you put on the ceiling (or floor) to tell Doom to use whichever sky texture is allocated as the sky for that level.