PSX Skyboxes II - Alien and Aurora Skies

27 more PS1-style skies for any retro 3D game: sunrise and sunset, auroras, eclipses (total, annular, a blood moon), hell (a red sky, fire, a burning rift), alien (two moons, a gas giant, a portal), smoke (wildfire, ash, war), underwater and snow. Each is 32 colours, ordered-dithered like the PS1's textures and low-res on purpose, as a seamless panorama and a cubemap, with ready sky materials and environments for Godot and skybox materials for Unity.

Try it first: click Run asset pack above and stand under them in your browser: left / right for the sky, up / down for the category, drag to look round, P for the PS1 shader. Or take four of them into your project first: PSX Skyboxes II Free, free under CC BY.

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What's inside

• Sunrise (3): clear with the pink belt of Venus opposite, through mist, under pink clouds.
• Sunset (3): golden hour, violet clouds after the sun has gone, cirrus streaks over a big orange sun.
• Aurora (3): green curtains by the Milky Way, violet and teal over the whole sky, green lighting broken cloud from above.
• Eclipse (3): total, with the corona and twilight all round; annular, a ring of fire over a dimmed day; a blood moon.
• Hell (3): a red sky under burning cloud, fires below the horizon with embers rising, a burning rift across the sky.
• Alien (3): two moons over a teal sky, a banded gas giant rising, a glowing portal.
• Smoke (3): a wildfire's haze with a red sun, falling ash, burning plumes on a war's night.
• Underwater (3): shallow, with Snell's window and shafts of light; murky green; the deep, with glowing specks.
• Snow (3): falling snow, snow at night over a town's glow, a blizzard.
• Every sky as a panorama (1024 x 512, and 512 x 256) and a cubemap (256 px faces, and 128), generated as a function of direction so neither has a seam and both are the same sky. 32 colours each, the moons, suns and snowflakes kept crisp.

The first pack

PSX Skyboxes has the everyday 26: night, dusk, sunset, day, overcast, storm with lightning, fog and space. Same look and same palette size, and the two addons sit side by side.

Godot 4.3 to 4.7

An addon with, for each sky, an Environment (the sky, ambient light and reflections from it, and fog of its horizon's colour): put it on a WorldEnvironment and you're done. The skies alone are materials too: a PanoramaSkyMaterial on each panorama, and a cubemap one whose pixels stay square overhead. The viewer shows them over a plain with houses, poles and pines on the horizon. Tested on Godot 4.3 and 4.7, on Forward+, Mobile and Compatibility.

The full PS1 look

The captures on this page are the skies through PSX Look, our PS1 shaders for Godot 4: wobbling vertices, warping textures, 240p, dither and 15-bit colour, over your level in one line. PSX Look has a free sampler too.

Made to match

Hang the blood moon or the hell skies over PSX Mansion Kit, the snow or the wildfire over PSX Forest, and the war smoke over PSX Bunker Kit.

Unity 6.3

A .unitypackage with every sky imported for the PS1 look (point filter, no mipmaps or compression) and a Skybox/Panoramic and a Skybox/6 Sided material each: Unity's own skybox shaders, on the Built-in pipeline and URP alike. Not HDRP.

Any engine

The panoramas (equirectangular, the middle column ahead) and the cube faces in OpenGL's order and orientation, as three.js, Godot and most engines take them. Set point filtering and turn mipmaps off.

License

Use in unlimited commercial and non-commercial games, apps and videos. No attribution required. Don't resell or redistribute the skies themselves.

Made with AI assistance (code and text; the skies are generated by code), checked by eye and tested in Godot 4.3 and 4.7 and Unity 6.3.

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