Unreal Tournament 3 Skies

This page contains a large number of custom assets for use with Unreal Tournament 3 skies.
It includes a wide variety of spherical sky textures, moon and planetary textures, various staticmeshes for use in rendering these texture objects, LensFlare textures, and others.

Copyright Notice, License for Use, and Legal Information

The files linked from this page are designed for use with Unreal Tournament 3 and are free for non-commercial use in Unreal Universe maps only.  Unreal Universe refers to these games: Unreal, Unreal 2, Unreal Championship, Unreal Championship 2, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Unreal Tournament 3.

You must include and reproduce the copyright and credits text as specified for each skies pack in your map's readme file or other documentation.  Even if you modify any of the files contained here for your own use, you must still include the copyright and credits text.

These files, either in their original format or in some modified derivative work, cannot be sold, cannot be bundled onto any discs or similar media for distribution, cannot be placed onto any other web site for download, and cannot be used in any other game other than those listed above.

Using the Sky assets provided on this page

Import the textures into Unreal Editor.  Normally they are imported into the map package.
Some of the textures require a custom StaticMesh also available here, others can be used with existing UT3 sky StaticMeshes where noted.

Some of the spherical sky textures here require a full sky sphere while others require a hemisphere sky dome.  See the information included with each file download.

To obtain a similar visual resolution quality as a UT2004 1024x1024 Skybox cube, a 4096 sky spherical texture must be used in UT3.  The issue with this is the large texture file size and the fact that older video adapters do not support rendering textures of this size.  UT3 will drop to the supported Mip on lower spec hardware such as 2048 or 1024.

The additional sky objects including clouds, moons, planets, nebulae, and others can be inserted into the map as desired to simulate those additional sky visual elements.

Unreal Editor Import Settings

When importing the sky textures, specify your map file as the Package, a logical Group name such as Skybox or TexSky, and use the following options settings to have a proper Material created for the texture.  Once the texture is loaded the Material will still show the default checkerboard, edit the Material with the Material Editor and simply move the TextureSampler to refresh the shader, then click on the green Check to update the Material.

Dawn 01 DGTXASDawn01.zip  3.01MB  0801.04 Two Textures: 4096x1024 and 2048x512 Windows Bitmap format Hemi-spherical mapping Compatible with UT3 StaticMesh UN_Sky package: UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_Dome01 UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_Dome02

Dawn 02 DGTXASDawn02.zip  723kb  0801.04 One Texture: 2048x512 Windows Bitmap format Hemi-spherical mapping Compatible with UT3 StaticMesh UN_Sky package: UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_Dome01 UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_Dome02

DawnFire 01 DGTXASDawnFire01.zip  1.89MB  0801.04 Two Textures: 4096x1024 and 2048x512 Windows Bitmap format Hemi-spherical mapping Compatible with UT3 StaticMesh UN_Sky package: UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_Dome01 UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_Dome02

more textures coming...

Fog Ring Masks DGTXDGFogRing.zip  66.2kb  0801.04 Three Gradient Textures: 512x512 Windows Bitmap format Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_FogRing Includes example UT3 Material screenshot.

Acheron B DGTXDGAcheronB.zip  4.27MB  0801.04 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

more textures coming...

Aborea DGTXEpicAborea.zip  10.3MB  0801.03 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

Acheron DGTXEpicAcheron.zip  3.52MB  0801.04 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

ElecFields DGTXEpicElecFields.zip  5.42MB  0801.04 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

IceFlow DGTXEpicIceFlow.zip  9.38MB  0801.04 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

IceFlow B DGTXEpicIceFlowB.zip  10.4MB  0801.04 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

Sulferon DGTXEpicSulferon.zip  1.49MB  0801.03 One Texture: 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

Tor DGTXEpicTor.zip  15.6MB  0801.04 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

Sky01 (Volcano) DGTXEpicVSky01.zip  1.49MB  0801.10 One Texture: 2048x512 Windows Bitmap format Hemi-spherical mapping Compatible with UT3 StaticMesh UN_Sky package: UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_Dome01 UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_Dome02

SkyDome DGTXEpicSkyDome.zip  721kb  0801.03 One Texture: 1024x1024 TARGA .tga format Planar mapping Compatible with UT3 StaticMesh UN_Sky package: UN_Sky.SM.Mesh.S_UN_Sky_SM_SkyDome05

Clouds DGTXEpicClouds.zip  6.03MB  0801.11 Ten Textures: 512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x512 TARGA .tga format Includes sheet, ring, and mask textures. For use in Materials or mapped to Cloud Sheets.

more textures coming...

Grimm Night DGTXHSGrimmNight.zip  2.23MB  0801.02 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

Interstellar DGTXHSInterstellar.zip  9.0MB  0801.03 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

Miramar DGTXHSMiramar.zip  5.97MB  0801.02 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

StormyDays DGTXHSStormyDays.zip  7.73MB  0801.02 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

ViolentDays DGTXHSViolentDays.zip  8.01MB  0801.02 Two Textures: 4096x2048 and 2048x1024 Windows Bitmap format Spherical mapping Requires StaticMesh SM_DG_SkySphere

SkyMeshes DGSMDGSkyMeshes.zip  587kb  0801.04 Thirteen meshes, 3DSMax9 .ase format - 10 SkySpheres with spherical mapping - 1 Fog Ring - 1 Ground Plane - 1 Water Plane

A tutorial on how to use these meshes is coming soon...

more meshes coming...

 2821 total downloads of all files.