Procedural Sky System

by Other Realms in Surfacing


Can I add elements behind the clouds?

Yes, pressing Ctrl-H will reveal the clouds mask socket.


Can I export the sky as a cube map or panorama texture?

PSS to Panorma

Position camera to X0,Y0,Z0, rotate X90d.

Set render engine to Cycles and change camera type to Equirectangular.

Output resolution should be 2:1 ratio ie. 2048x1024



Hit render and save!

Panorama to Cube Map

You can use this website to genreate png or jpeg cubemaps from your equirectangular texture.

https://jaxry.github.io/panorama-to-cubemap/


Why does my sun keep resetting when I hit render?

There's a good chance you have enabled the sun position addon. This will override any manual changes you make to the sun position to one calculated by time and latitude/longitude. To manually control the Sun, simply disable the addon in preferences>Add-ons 'Sun Position'.


Do I need to have the addon installed for all render nodes when rendering across a network?

Not any more. 0.2.1 removes the need to have the addon installed with the exception of animating the shadow caster size.

Can I combine this shader with other shaders or HDRI's

Yes, you do whatever you like so long as its within the base level node tree. There is also a 'Base' colour input which can be used to mix in an image texture.

Will the sky cast light like a HDRI?

Yes, it uses the world shader and will cast ambient light in combination with a sun or moon light.

Can I recover accidentally deleted built-in presets?

Sure. There is a button in the addon's preferences. Note, it will replace all buit-in presets with new copies, so any save changes to them will be lost. Your own custom presets won't be affected though and will still exist.

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Published over 3 years ago
Blender Version 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.93, 2.92, 2.91, 2.9
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