Skyboxes in RRS - Fix

I’ve seen that skyboxes don’t work when you add them in via RRS, or if you don’t add a skybox in your first save of RRS then it stops you from adding a skybox in the game and RRS. There’s a fix however:

  1. In RRS, select the skybox you want to use. I’ll use one of rec room’s built in skyboxes for now as this is what the issue effects.
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  2. Go into the inspector and look at the top. You’ll see the name of the skybox, and a dropdown for the shaders.
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  3. Select the dropdown and press the “Skybox” option.

  4. Select the “Rec Room Skybox” option. You might be thinking, why are we putting the same shader on as what it currently has? Well, we are re-applying the shader so it should reset the skybox and make it work as correctly.

  5. Once you’ve applied the shader, you’ll see that the icon has changed in the explorer. This means that it has worked.

  6. Drag and drop the skybox into your game, and you can build / upload to rec room with no issues.

If we load into the game, we can see that it has worked as intended.

This is how I learnt to fix this issue, if you come across a solution that works better please let me know! I’m always open for feedback.

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Please notice that this may not work in rooms 2.0. I’ll try and find a fix soon :3

UPDATE: The water materials seem to be the main culprit for why the fix does not work, so keep that in mind :slight_smile: