Skyboxes and filters

Skyboxes are background added to the world to improve the ambience of an area. Many areas have a specific skybox. Filters are rendering techniques which changes how colours appear.

Skyboxes and filters can be combined, creating strange or interesting views of common places. This is commonly combined with the orb of oculus/freecam mode to take interesting screenshots.

The update of 15 May 2017 allowed a number of skyboxes and filters to be used by the player at will via the orb of oculus or by right-clicking the world map globe near the minimap. After the update, a competition was held which encouraged players to submit their best photos using the skyboxes.

Skyboxes

Orb of oculus

Can be accessed from the orb of oculus or by right-clicking the world map globe.

Skybox	Image	Description
Dusk		A purple dusk found on Uncharted Isles
Dawn		A bright yellow dawn found on Uncharted Isles
Midday		A bright day with clouds found in Taverley
Throne		Swirling purple clouds with little light, also encountered in The Empty Throne Room during Children of Mah
Bonfire		The nighttime skybox from player-owned houses, with extra orange lighting. Initially from the Lumbridge Crater during Celebration of Fire.
Eclipse		A black sky with red clouds with a slight orange tint with a eclipse in the backround. Exclusive to Sliske's Endgame and the skybox filter
Goshima		A dreary day with little light. Also found on Goshima.
Shattered Worlds		A space skybox with floating rocks also found during Shattered Worlds.

Items

Several skyboxes can be activated by the use of specific items.

Item	Image	Description
Daystone		The normal daytime skybox
Nightstone		The nighttime skybox from player-owned houses
Bloodstone		The Vampyrium skybox from The Lord of Vampyrium with the River of Blood hallucination filter

Other

Skybox	Image	Description
Daytime		Standard skybox used in several areas
Player-owned house day		Standard daytime skybox
Player-owned house dusk		Standard dusk skybox
Player-owned house night		Standard nighttime skybox

Filters

Orb of oculus

Filter	Image	Description
River of Blood Hallucinations		Most colours muted, red hues enhanced. Used in River of Blood.
Blue Shadows		A blue hue applied to most grey/blue/dark colours.
Magic Toad		Colours mostly inverted, favouring bright blues and oranges
Aminishi Spirit Realm		Most colours desaturated
Goshima		Darkened and slightly desaturated, like a dreary day
Zemouregal's Scrying Pool		Purple applied to everything
Warm		Orange hues added, blues dimmed
Cool		Blues enhanced, but not as much as Blue Shadows
Sepia		Brown added to everything, like older parchments and photography
Cel Shade		Colour saturation significantly increased, making everything much brighter and bleeding into each other. (Not quite true cel shading.)
Cross-Process		Slight mix colours with adjacent colours, mostly resulting in slightly warmer colours
High Contrast		Increases the saturation of all colours slightly
Colour Invert		All colours inverted
Greyscale		All colours changed to shades of grey

Location specific skyboxes

Area	Image
Heart of Gielinor
Mazcab
Naragun
New Varrock
Tarddiad
Troll Warzone
Underworld
Yu'biusk
Death's office
Freneskae (Fate of the Gods)
Freneskae (Children of Mah)
Tuska
Low level Runespan
Mid level Runespan
High level Runespan
Telos, the Warden boss fight
Clan Citadels
World Gate location on Gielinor
Kharidian Desert
Paterdomus
Morytania
Daemonheim
Wilderness
Battlefield
Poison Waste

Trivia

• The magic toad filter was initially planned to be activated when nibbling sliced mushrooms in the Arc, but was scrapped before release.
• The in-universe reason for being able to change skyboxes/filters at will was given by Mod Shauny as "the player imagines the world around them changed".
• The first skyboxes to ever be introduced in-game were the Clan Citadels ones on 26 July 2011.