Today we are looking the powerful “new” Godot Sky3D add-on from Tokisan Games, the creators of the popular Terrain3D plugin. I air quotes around “new” because the Sky3D project is actually a revival of an earlier Godot 3 add-on by J. Cuéllar. That project however was abandoned, so Tokisan have dusted it off, ported to Godot 4.3+ and continued development.
Features of Sky3D include:
- Automatically rotating sun, moon, and stars
- Dynamic clouds and atmosphere that changes with the cycle
- Consolidated controls to adjust lighting and camera exposure
- Management of game time: current time, day length, day or night
The project is open source under the MIT license and is now written entirely in GDScript (the 3.0 version used a combination of GDScript and C#).
Key Links
You can learn more about the Sky3D add-on for the Godot 4.3+ game engine and see it in action in the video below.