How to install True-Sky in Blender

The True-Sky addon for Blender offers Day and Night tabs for customizing daytime and nighttime settings respectively. A unique feature allows users to replace the procedural night sky with a specific Night HDRI, disabling nebula and star settings, and providing a realistic night sky effect.

Learn and understand the preferences of True-Sky

True-Sky for Blender offers control over sun (True-Sol), secondary star (True-Binary), and atmospheric settings like haze and fog, simulating real-world values for celestial bodies. Includes hue/saturation/value adjustments, pre-set skies, and interactive placement tools.

You can find information about creating presets in the Custom Presets article.

True-Sky add-on offers cloud customization for scenes. Options include choosing cloud type, adjusting altitude, density, coverage, and location. Advanced options allow fine-tuning, with controls like 'Make em’ Sunny' for a sun-kissed effect, evaporation animation speed, and a bounce hack for more light bounces.

True-Sky's Rolling Fog, mimicking fog moving over landscapes, offers controls for density, color, absorption, scale, location, and animation. Similarly, Surface Fog, replicating low atmospheric fog, provides customizable density, distribution, color, absorption, scale, location, and animation settings.

The True-Sky addon for Blender offers custom presets, allowing users to save and apply specific configurations for aspects like Time, Haze, or Fog. This function provides quick access to predefined sky setups and facilitates easy switching between different sky configurations.

The Performance tab in the True-Sky addon optimizes its performance by adjusting volume presets, camera render region, viewport render region, pixel size, and tile size. It also features True-Speed for faster approximation of diffuse indirect light, enhancing performance in Blender projects.

The Auto Exposure tab in True-Sky addon automates exposure adjustments based on scene brightness. It offers different metering modes, EV compensation, and customizable sampling grids or circles, ensuring balanced and visually appealing results.