Sky3D

A dynamic day/night cycle for Godot Engine 4, written in GDScript.

Features

• Supports Godot 4.3+, Forward and Mobile renderers (Not Compatibility yet)
• Automatically rotating sun, moon, and stars, with moon phases
• Dynamic atmosphere, fog, and clouds that change with the day cycle
• Consolidated controls to adjust lighting and camera exposure
• Management of game time: current time, day length, day or night

Screenshots

Installation

• Clone or download the repository.
• Open the project in Godot and run demo/Sky3DDemo.tscn to test it.
• Copy addons/sky_3d into your project addons directory. Create the folder if missing.
• Open Project -> Project Settings -> Plugins and enable the plugin.

Usage

• Create or open a Scene.
• Remove any existing WorldEnvironment node.
• Create a new Sky3D node.
• Customize the settings of the Sky3D, Sky3D/Environment, TimeOfDay, Skydome, SunLight, and MoonLight nodes. Some settings like light energy, color, and angle are driven by Sky3D and not changeable unless you disable Sky3D.enable_editor_time and/or enable_game_time. Other settings like shadow configuration are adjustable.

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Credit

This plugin was originally written for Godot 3 in GDScript and C# by J. Cuéllar. The original repository was deleted. We revived it, ported the GDScript version to Godot 4, and have continued to build on it.

Developed for the Godot community by:

Sky3D v2 for Godot 4
Cory Petkovsek, Tokisan Games
Roman Shapiro
TimeOfDay v1 for Godot 3
J. Cuéllar

And contributors shown in the right sidebar of the github repository.

License

This addon has been released under the MIT License.

If using the stars asset, you must credit the author.