purpose

python scripts to

• import OBJ files, that were exported from SpyroWorldViewer, into Blender
• set-up vertex colors and organize the Objects/Meshes
• use collections and view layers to help render the skies properly
• batch render the skies as 6-sided cubemap skyboxes

here's a Google Sheet with all the data

other related links

• Spyro World Viewer, on the Spyro subreddit (2015)
• IAmKnotMax's FBX skies on Spyro Forum (2019)
• Youtube video, by Dessert Monkey, about getting skyboxes from Autodesk 3ds Max into Unity using Maxsccript (2016)
• r/Spyro post, by AlDeezy1, about getting levels into blender (2023)
  • Youtube video, by Aldeezy1 (2023)

example in-blender scripts

setup

run this from a new and empty blender file

from spyroboxes.do_everything import do_everything

path_obj_string = r"I:\Spyro\obj_files"

do_everything(
    should_setup=True, # initialize view layers, camera, compositor, renderer, etc
    mesh_folder_path=path_obj_string # where the OBJ files are located
)

render

run this after all the skies have been imported

from spyroboxes import batch
from spyroboxes import setup
from pathlib import Path

path_render = Path(r"I:\Spyro\skybox_renders")

setup.set_render_file_format('TARGA')
batch.render_all_skyboxes(path_render / 'tga', 1024)

setup.set_render_file_format('PNG')
batch.render_all_skyboxes(path_render / 'png', 1024)

yapping about dates

• this project was initially attempted in 2023
  • and now, as of writing this, it is 2025-08
• i have python scripts dated 2023-02-03 meant for playing around with BPY (Blender Python) and FBX stuff. and then i tried again in 2024.
• my memory is a bit fuzzy... but i recall trying to use the FBX files by IAmKnotMax, but then wanting to just do all the importing myself instead.
• in 2014-05-24, i took a bunch of screenshots inside of Spyro World Viewer.
• i found a ZIP file with WAD files that i extracted myself from the game discs (labelled: "1 eng", "2 plat", "3 gh") dated 2016-09-30
  • the files inside of the ZIP file are dated 2015-01-06
• the OBJ files that i am working with are also dated 2014-05-24. SpyroWorldViewer extracted these from the WAD files.