Yea the mirrored terrain is really low on resources, and blends right in if you use a seamless texture.

I do like the mirrored terrain, is there a way to render a skybox say, 100 blocks farther than the edge, so you can't literally walk up to it?

we NEED this.
Come on ben, give us an early christmas present.

MegaDeuce, I had a giggle, funny post.

For real though, Ben needs to add chat text colour changing so that we play on the amazing snow maps that have been made.

Yea I want a skybox too.. the way it mirrors terrain now is cool. I say leave it for if there is no skybox/cubemap file.

BTW, texturemaker can make cubemaps for skyboxes too. I also have use blender in the past for unreal tournament, quake 2 quake 3, and unreal 2003-2004 skyboxes.

One cool thing that might make for a better ambiance than the usual skybox images, is have a skybox level that renders when you get near the edge of the map. That way we will keep the look an feel of the blokieness :)

Looks like apachee is abandonware!
http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/comanche-maximum-overkill/

can play in dosbox.

oh yeah, that would be pretty cool, a more detailed sky would be very interesting

A skybox is what you're looking at in a video game when you see stuff in the sky (clouds, stars, the sun):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDQj7mDKhVU&feature=related

the terrain types would be cool, i am not really sure what you mean by the skybox, but the different terrain types would be nice.

So I've been playing some cool new 3D games like Quake and Comanche: Maximum Overkill, and I had a couple suggestions to really bring AOS up to date.

1) A skybox

2) Multiple terrain types. Examples: green, brown, and snow.

What do you guys think? Would these be fun?