Journal 49 — Custom Skybox Added to Unity

Objective: To modify the scene background with a custom skybox.

Unity includes options to render a game scene with a sky of your choice, depending on the type of environment you prefer.

In this example from the “The Great Fleece”, the sky surrounding this environment is essentially blank.

We can add a skybox that will completely fill the sky, and the scene will be placed in this environment.

We can create a new material and change its type to “Skybox — 6 Sided”. Then we can add texture maps to fill in all 6 sides.

Once the new skybox is filled in, it’s time to change out skybox material. You can modify this by accessing the Lighting window.

Once in the Lighting window, you can switch to the Environment tab, and drag in the new skybox.

As you can see, the new skybox completely fills the entire view.

Thank you for your time!