Stylized Sky

An open-source shader for creating stylized skies. Compatible with Godot game engine version 4.

Preview

Day sky	Night sky

Features

Feature	Description
Sky Gradient	Define the sky color from 3 inputs.
Starfield	Add twinkling starfield in the background, ideal for nocturnal scenes.
Clouds	Displays scrolling animated volumetric clouds.
Astro	Position an image based on the primary Directional Light 3D direction.
Shooting stars	Add shooting stars falling from the top of the skybox.

Optimization

The sky shader can be optimized by applying the following changes.

• Static sky Enhance performance by making the sky static by removing the TIME variable.
• Sample Reduction Adjust cloud sampling to fine-tune the balance between quality and performance.

Credits

Voronoi method by Inigo Quilez

Volumetric Rendering by Alan Zucconi

Direction to rotation matrix by Martijn Pieters