An extensive tool to control dynamic weather and time of day using realistic volumetric clouds, atmosphere and visual effects.

Sky Creator is an extensive tool to control dynamic weather and time of day using realistic volumetric clouds, atmosphere and visual effects in Unreal Engine. With a built-in weather preset system you can create endless amounts of different looking weather and lighting conditions and switch any of them in realtime.

Important note: Sky Creator comes with a few example blueprint controllers at “SkyCreatorPlugin Content/Blueprints”. Also please be sure to check out an example map at “SkyCreatorPlugin Content/Maps”.

How to use:

Select “Lights” category in Place Mode
And just drag Sky Creator onto your level
Technical Details
Features:

Weather Presets System: allows you creating endless amounts of different looking weather and lighting conditions
Unified Multi-layered Volumetric Cloud material with extended quality settings
Highly art-directable and customizable: from vast realistic cloudscapes to stylized looking skies
Modular design: you can easily control Sky Creator with your own blueprint time manager or weather controller
Built-in Weather FX (CPU & GPU Particles): Rain, Rain Splashes, Snow, Lightnings
Built-in Material FX (Shaders): Wetness, Puddles, Ripples, Snow
Runtime Occlusion System with a smooth falloff
Simplified and Real positioning models for Sun & Moon
Photorealistic Starmap with rotation, star twinkle effect, moon phases, etc.
Lightweight (as possible) and relatively easy to use
Game-ready optimization
35 included Weather Preset examples – clear, cloudy, overcast, rainy, stylized etc.
Included Blueprint Controllers examples
Network Replicated

V1.41.3

Fixed non-displaying change of solar positions when using “Set Sun Simple Position Settings”, “Set Moon Simple Position Settings” and “Set Real Position Settings”
Fixed non-displaying update of “Light Transition” when resetting “Editor Time of Day”
Fixed “Cloud Ambient Occlusion”, now it’s disabled by default (feature has been unstable in recent engine versions)