Any way to tell if an entity (or vector) is inside the skybox?

[HornetPilot]

Title is self explanatory. Need to know if there is a way to detect if something is inside the skybox.

[tzahush]

If you mean in the world, [url]https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/IsInWorld[/url]
Took me 2 googles ;)

[HornetPilot]

[QUOTE=tzahush;52188946]If you mean in the world, [url]https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/IsInWorld[/url]
Took me 2 googles ;)[/QUOTE]
Thanks but I already knew this existed and was not what I intended. I need to know if something is in the skybox area (not necessarily inside the world)

[bloodmasked]

probably use coordinates

[rtm516]

I think he means the 3d skybox, and you would probably have to do something with sky_camera

[Fulcrum]

[QUOTE=rtm516;52189205]I think he means the 3d skybox, and you would probably have to do something with sky_camera[/QUOTE]

send out traces which only hit world geometry where those traces hit will be the bounds of the 3d skybox

[HornetPilot]

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;52189211]send out traces which only hit world geometry where those traces hit will be the bounds of the 3d skybox[/QUOTE]

Correct me if I am wrong but surely the traces would still hit normal worldspawn and not only the 3D skybox area?

[Fulcrum]

[QUOTE=Sm63;52189439]Correct me if I am wrong but surely the traces would still hit normal worldspawn and not only the 3D skybox area?[/QUOTE]
sorry i meant send traces out from the skybox camera

[Bull29]

if you only need this for one map, manually define the bounds yourself using something like the example provided here.

[img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Vector/WithinAABox]Vector:WithinAABox[/url]

[mcd1992]

[QUOTE=Z0mb1n3;48628854]I'm using the entity's :GetSaveTable().scale to retrieve it scale

EDIT:
Here you guys go, this seems to work just fine now. I whipped up a function to translate a position to the skybox.

function util.WorldToSkybox(pos)
    local campos
    local skyscale = 1
    for k,v in pairs(ents.FindByClass("sky_camera")) do
        campos = v:GetPos()
        skyscale = v:GetSaveTable().scale
    end
    local offset = pos/skyscale
    return campos+offset
end

EDIT2:

Well you know, I figure, might as well have a way to convert a skybox position into the world, so here you go, too.

function util.SkyboxToWorld(pos)
    local skyscale = 1
    local campos
    for k,v in pairs(ents.FindByClass("sky_camera")) do
        skyscale = v:GetSaveTable().scale
        campos = v:GetPos()
    end
    local offset = (pos-campos)*skyscale
    return Vector(0,0,0)+offset
end

Maybe these could be made standard functions? They seem useful enough.[/QUOTE]