Godot Skybox with Space Engine

Licensing: Please see the Space Engine site for information on licensing. I believe that by buying the basic Space Engine you do NOT acquire a license to use exported images.
However, you also can only export very low rez skybox images that look pretty crappy, so for testing and development I am just using them for now.
To obtain a license to use these images in your work and the ability to export high resolution images look for and buy the "SpaceEngine PRO" license.

Export Skybox from Space Engine

Convert the Cubemap to a "Panorama"

As per the Godot documentation it uses a "equirectangular sky map" instead of a cube map and you can use this tool to convert it:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_panoramaskymaterial.html#class-panoramaskymaterial

Upload each segment form the folder. The names of the files should make it clear which one goes where.
Set the rotation to 0 for ALL segments.
use the "Update" button to update the image.
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When you are done use "Download(save) result" to get the file for Godot.

Copy this saved file into your Godot project somewhere.

Set up a Skybox in Godot

Now it should look something like this and you will see the exported background from Space Engine in your editor.
![](/img/user/attachments/Pasted image 20231227143655.png)