Skylook
Every skybox and screen effect of World of Warcraft, pictured through the day with the Epsilon commands that put
each one in the game, and a viewer that draws any sky of any build from Classic Era to Midnight in the browser.
https://natans8.github.io/skylook/
What is here
| path | what it is |
|---|
site/index.html, gallery.js | the gallery, one panorama per skybox and one picture per screen effect |
site/sky.html, app.js, app.css | the viewer's interface |
site/sky.js | the engine: the sky cone, the day cycle, the skybox model, screen effects, exports |
site/wowload.js | reads M2 models and BLP textures in the browser |
site/assets.js | where client files and light tables are fetched from |
site/encode.js, gifworker.js | loop export: gifski for GIF, the browser's own encoder for mp4 and webm |
site/ts.*.js | the screen-effect constants, cloud noise and gallery card rules, compiled from TypeScript |
site/lib/ | three.js, @wowserhq/format, mediabunny and gifski-wasm |
site/data/versions/ | the build roster and each build's light tables, gzipped (Git LFS) |
site/data/gallery/ | the drawn gallery pictures and their index (Git LFS) |
site/data/epsilon_map.json | each 9.2.7 skybox's Epsilon spells and gameobject displays |
Models and textures are not stored here. The viewer fetches each file from wago.tools when a sky is opened.
site/ is staged by the publish script of the skybox tooling that produces the tables and the pictures, so a
change made in site/ directly is overwritten by the next publish.
Running it locally
Any static file server over site/:
python -m http.server -d site 8000
Deploying
A push to main deploys through .github/workflows/pages.yml, which pulls the LFS objects and uploads site/ to
GitHub Pages. The repository's Pages source is set to GitHub Actions.
Licence
The code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later. The vendored libraries keep
their own licences, and the game data is not ours to license. NOTICE has the details.
