Skybox AI -- Amazing AI Powered Skybox Generator

This new Skybox generator tool is a powerful, quick and free way to create game ready skybox textures using AI. Created by BlockadeLabs, the Skybox generator enables you to make skyboxs starting with simple text prompts, but also provides the tools to paint in details, as well as coming preconfigured with dozens of different art styles.
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[@_gamma.]

Ngl I’m loving all these ai tools, finding a specific skybox is always a pain

[@vanvelt]

Maybe nvidia gaugan 360 is the tool for you 😉

[@nolram]

The 4 big problems with this tool right now are: 1. It still generates ground and foreground objects wayyyy too often to be actually usable. 2. It only outputs tonemapped JPGs - which is both not good because a Skybox really needs HDR to look right, and because of JPG compression. 3. It often has seams at the tip of the sky. Thats... not great. 4. As there is no statement (at least none I have found) on where training material is sourced, it has the same ethical and legal issues as other AI image generation tools. Until these are resolved/answered, this is sadly just a neat experiment.

[@Inferryu]

1. You have tools to add, remove or change parts of the image, is a matter of putting a bit more work in to it, but still way less work than making one entirely from zero, if what you want is something quick. 2. Although ideally it should, you don't need it to be HDR, and in fact the format doesn't matter either, it all depends of the use you'll give it, if it's EA's next "eye-candy" yea, you'll probably want it to be an hdr or exr, but for a low performance mobile gatcha game? not so much. 3. Not great indeed, but that's more due to the equirectangular projection it uses, as that pinching is common with it, but if your game doesn't let the camera point straight up, it'll be fine, plenty of games do that; My biggest complaint is that sometimes the "geometry" doesn't seem to properly align with the projection. 4. No comment, this is a matter of personal opinion. As with any new tool(not just AI-based), if it sees enough use, the developer may be compelled to improve or add upon what's need it.

[@Tim3Lime]

@@Inferryu Nah, it really needs to be high dynamic range. Even software running on car HMIs that run on a literal $2-10 use hdr skyboxes.

[@nolram]

@@Inferryu I see what you are saying - but non-HDR skyboxes are just really not valid these days. Even cheap mobile games have them, they are REQUIRED to get any kind of skybox lighting. And the pinching can be fixed too by properly projected - but here thats not the case

[@chlbrn]

@@Inferryu HDR/EXR file format does matter a lot, 32bit image can contain lighting data that is far beyond 0-1 range, for a real world sun, it can be stored like 50k in value and when you tone down the brightness, the highlighted area will not be washed out like grey and you have the ability to tweak the brightness to suit your lighting setup.

[@Inferryu]

@@Tim3Lime Nah, it doesn't really NEEDS to be, although id be nice if you use it. I've yet to see a car using a skybox at all, they all use that blue "future-hologram" aesthetic, some examples for me to see, I'm actually curious. And literal $2-10 what?

[@unicorn_tamer]

Thank you so much for letting us know! I just did an anime styled generic prompt and the result was stunning! I am surely gonna use this on my future projects and I can't wait for someone to come along and add dynamic lighting to this.

[@TackerTacker]

A very cool AI tool for skyboxes, see how simple it is ...well I mean you do not usually want this in your skyboxes, here is now a different prompt usually you do not want these kinda things in your skybox, but you can switch the style ...for some reason it now decided to do something else you ususally don't want in your skyboxes ... Amazing, we are living in the future everybody😂

[@Theraot]

I don't think this very useful for game sky boxes directly... On that regard, it might be more more useful for people doing renders, in Blender for example. However, it has an option to generate a depth map, so this might be useful for fixed camera pre-rendered scenes, for example as they did for games such as Grim Fandango, old school Resident Evil, and so on... Then again, you might want to edit it for your needs first, which might mean making a render. I would rather be able to input a depth map (instead of having it as output). Addendum: it should be good for visual novel backgrounds.

[@Ranakade]

This is probably the one thing I'd support for AI related software. Skyboxes are such a pain.

[@chlbrn]

Man, thank you so much, I am making a storm scene that needs a cloudy or stormy sky and I just can't find a free HDRI map, some good ones charge like 70 bucks which is insane to me and this one saves me a lot of time and money, I just wish it can export hdr or exr files but I don't think AI currently can do that.

[@shaon1412]

Mike: if you have never encountered skyboxes, you have never played video games. Me: what about 2d and top down games?

[@n00bc0de7]

This seems like it might also be useful for generating pre-rendered backgrounds (ie. final fantasy 7 through 9 style).

[@TheFunDimension]

It would be useful if you could add images to it so it can be consistent, which have been a huge problem with generated stuff.

[@vojtastruhar8950]

Btw if you use the "Sky" preset it seems to avoid the close-up objects

[@blockadelabs]

Yes! Sky preset is tuned specifically for true skyboxes with open horizon lines

[@DeusAlgor]

For me it generates clouds as a ground xD And on Nebulea - there is always either spacecraft or asteroid.

[@blockadelabs]

@@DeusAlgor Try using our new negative text to keep those things out 👌

[@tozpeak]

Afaik, Horizon Zero Dawn generate clouds and use raymarching to render them. There should be a lection from their team somewhere, acerola mentioned it in his yesterdays video.

[@Eliasdbr]

Very impressive tool! Sadly, I tried generating a "outer space" skybox, but keeps drawing ground, close objects, technologic spaceships, and when it finally draws an space environment, it draws planets and all kind of weird things... Its clearly designed for Skyboxes with some kind of terrain below in mind

[@DeGameBox_SRBT]

you 100% described what I wanted to write)

[@simply4est]

just played with it a bit - amazing!

[@stylie473joker5]

Crazy times we live in

[@TravisBerthelot]

Looks more like a Skysphere than a Skybox.

[@blockadelabs]

Technically, you're right. For now, it's equirectangular jpgs mapped to a sphere. Looking to add more output formats in the future.

[@TravisBerthelot]

@@blockadelabs I was not trying to draw anyone into some kind of feature creep.

[@blockadelabs]

@@TravisBerthelot It was already in our plans, no worries! We launch light, keep adding, give people more control and usability.

[@jlewwis1995]

@@blockadelabs do you have any plans to add an actual "sky only" mode? Even the "sky" preset can add stuff above the horizon line sometimes which isn't ideal. Also I've seen many skies with more than 1 sun which looks really bad, there needs to be an option to enforce only 1 sun/moon

[@blockadelabs]

@@jlewwis1995 We're constantly working to improve our styles and give you more tools to control the output. Got some stuff in the pipeline that should help with that for sure!

[@Art_911]

Thanks as always for finding these gems!

[@3dchick]

Super cool!!

[@WolfCatalyst]

That's pretty slick. I wonder if it can run in SD local install 😮

[@vectoralphaSec]

Awesome. AI truly is changing the world.

[@ukrsolid]

nice tool

[@fleurbird]

Nice!

[@unrealone1]

looks amazing

[@SLAYINGVR]

How do you make a sky box for a level where the city can show at the boundry on a limited distance map

[@vidarlystadjohansen9829]

Great channel

[@dedicatez]

you could probably use this for an interior parallax map

[@raymk]

what's the catch tho?

[@washynator]

It's AI

[@argmon9090]

destroying humanity, massively violating copyright and good old silicon valley degeneration

[@mixchief]

So this could also be a useful tool making sky domes for 3D scenes I presume?

[@-Engineering01-]

How on earth could this piece of goddess be free !?

[@rewindcat7927]

Wow 😮

[@arbitool]

Can this or any other AI software get an image or set of images as input and generate a skybox?

[@vojtastruhar8950]

My jaw dropped

[@DeusAlgor]

Was hyped as hell, but after testing it I was unable to generate anything even remotely useful for my projects. - Implementing foreground elements in every result even when you prompt it to not draw them. - Some results are pretty bad quality with visible transiotions on the 'box' edges. + I can see it being used for some visual novels or point and click type of games though.

[@impheris]

very interesting

[@xylvnking]

Reminder that currently steam will remove your game from the store if you're found to be using ai generated content

[@piorism]

When typing "Ghibli" as a prompt, it generates an obviously Ghibli-inspired landscape. This means that the model is incorporating images without consent.

[@7GFEC]

What's the name of the program you were using after you created the skybox?

[@GEX-roblox-dev]

BRO IT HAVE WATER MARKS!! :C help

[@krz9000]

Max resolution?

[@gamefromscratch]

Generated file is 6144 × 3072

[@nocturne6320]

I tried it out and got a file with resolution 6144x3072, which is pretty good, but the texture is rather lacking in details, I tried only once, so the results may wary and with proper prompting you might get a great result, but it can always be fixed with Stable Diffusion locally, trying it now.

[@OsoTedyfazbear3329]

@@gamefromscratch I made a soccer field in a free alternative called CopernicAI but so far from what I see it is only a panoramic background and I need that soccer field to have a solid floor 😐

[@imraan_alam]

Sadly, it's not free. You need to get a subscription to remove a huge banner on the skybox you generate.

[@Tim3Lime]

Still a jpg, so not really good for lighting data. Hard pass for me...

[@justanothernobody7142]

This is no longer free, as with all these new AI related startups they all start out free then soon become paid. Now every free generation is covered in a watermark unless you pay a minimum of $10 a month sub.

[@justanothernobody7142]

@@robbyz512You don't sign up for a monthly sub to the grocers because you want one tomato either. It's a stupid comparison. This has nothing to do with being an adult, maybe you should be an adult and stop making childish remarks. I was just pointing out for anyone watching the video that it is no longer free.

[@ElQuenduGmn]

sadly it's not free..

[@cyber_habanero]

Like the most AI, it's crap. It looks like they have only some models they combine all the time, AI don't understands much, images can't be DLed without pay. Better invest your time to learn and watch some tutorials for Blender. Maybe in 2-3- years one can have a really useful open source AI on an own PC.

[@argmon9090]

as with any ai generation bs , completely and utterly useless and massive copyright violations , AMAZING. What greater way of silicon valley degeneration other than hurting artists and wasting resources :)

[@sicfxmusic]

#NoAI* *sometimes 🤣🤣

[@aramenius4293]

Just like with every new thing, people are slow to adapt until that new thing becomes indispensable.

[@SylvanFeanturi]

@@aramenius4293 Exactly! Just like blockchain! ... Wait...

[@aramenius4293]

@@SylvanFeanturi yeah and nft... Oh wait 🥵

[@Inferryu]

@@SylvanFeanturi Cameras, internet, pencils, underwear, pants, arabic numbers, the list goes on. You can of course cherry pick your examples to give an incorrect image of the situation, but that's neither here not there.

[@argmon9090]

@@Inferryu do you have ANY IDEA how many "new" things failed to bring us the successful ones ? Just because something is new DOES NOT mean it has any worth or use-case

[@LeGaLiZeDOOMz]

its trash

[@thechronicgrump3906]

First