A dynamic day/night cycle for Godot Engine 4, written in GDScript.
- Supports Godot 4.3+, Forward, Mobile, and Compatibility renderers
- Automatically rotating sun, moon, and stars, with moon phases
- Dynamic atmosphere, fog, and clouds that change with the day cycle
- Consolidated controls to manage lighting and camera exposure
- Management of game time: current time, day length, day or night
- Clone or download the repository.
- Open the project in Godot and run
demo/Sky3DDemo.tscnto test it. - Copy
addons/sky_3dinto your projectaddonsdirectory. Create the folder if missing. - Open
Project -> Project Settings -> Pluginsand enable the plugin.
- Create or open a Scene.
- Remove any existing
WorldEnvironmentnode. - Create a new
Sky3Dnode. - Customize the settings of the
Sky3D,Sky3D/Environment,TimeOfDay,SkyDome,SunLight, andMoonLightnodes. Some settings like light energy, color, and angle are driven by Sky3D and not directly changeable on the light nodes. You'll know if they are reset on time updates. Adjust those settings inSky3DorSkyDome.
This render needs a bit of adjustment to show similar results to Vulkan:
Sky3D / Sky Contribution = 0.75SkyDome / Fog / Fog Density = 0.01
The documentation is built in to Godot. Look for tooltips in the inspector where available, or press F1 and search for Sky3D, SkyDome, TimeOfDay.
For support, join our Discord server.
Developed for the Godot community by:
| Cory Petkovsek, Tokisan Games |      |
And all of the wonderful contributors shown in the right sidebar of the github repository.
The original version of this plugin, TimeOfDay v1, was made by J. Cuéllar for Godot 3. You can find it in the godot3 branch. The original repository was deleted. We revived it, ported the GDScript version to Godot 4, and have continued to build on it to produce Sky3D.
This addon has been released under the MIT License.
If using the star map assets, you must credit the author.