Change the skybox in Unity in just 3 simple steps

This article demonstrates the way one can change the usual looking sky in Unity to a custom environment.

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The exercise uses a skybox in a 6 sided cubed shader. The material on it is by default what we are seeing above. It is just a matter of creating a new material and applying it on the skybox cube.

Please follow this set of steps and it would be a cakewalk to change the sky.

1. Create a material in assets and change its’ shader to 6 sided skybox.

2. Keep the image files ready in your assets that you would like to use as your sky. These images can be anything of choice :) Drop each image file into its’ relevant position in the inspector.

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3. Once the images are in place, go to lighting manager window and change the default skybox to the new material that you just created.

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That should be it :)

Here is the final result of some skybox materials for your reference.

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To play around with different skybox images, you can use this asset available for free on Unity store.

AllSky Free - 10 Sky / Skybox Set | 2D Sky | Unity Asset Store

Thank you very much