Dynamic Sky(add-on)

12/9/2015

UPDATE
Dynamic sky addon was added to master branch of Blender 2.79b, so when you download ,you will get it by default in the addon list ,Thats why it has been removed from this page ,
HAPPY BLENDING

Ever Wonder Where To Start Lighting In Your Scene ?

if so then Dynamic sky is just for you , grab professional lighting skills on your finger tips ,
Dynamic sky is an add-on to create Procedural Sun and sky with lots of additional options to tweak
with this single add-on you can create interior , exterior or any type of natural lighting in a glimps

Instruction

Installation

Download add-on from the bottom of this page and extract it somewhere in your pc , then open blender and go to File> user preferences > add-ons , then press install from file
and navigate to the download directory and select the add-on and press OK , that's it :)

How to use?

After enabling Dynamic sky add-on , press T on view port to bring out side panel , where in the bottom you can find Dynamic sky , press Create button and This will creates Dynamic World in the world panel ,
now you need to select Dynamic World from the world panel

once you have selected it then you can tweak the settings in the dynamic sky's panel
I hope you like it :)

FAQs

Why did you made this add-on?

i was working on a solution for getting fast renders in cycles from a long time , just because i dont find cycles suitable for some quick projects , or you can also say i dint have better GPU haha , but i tried all lights and settings but nothing worked so far to get fast results so i tried playing with environment and created a little node system which provides Sun and sky , so only with a few click anyone can setup a scene and focus more on other things and i hope it helps

How did you come up with python solution ?

1st of all , i am not an expert coder , i just wrote what i did as an artist ,i learned little bit of coding by reading lots of add-on , and sometime i copy paste too , there are many devs in the IRC who helped me understanding concepts of python but still there may be lots of mistakes in the code but as far as i can see it works well on the view port , so if anyone finds something wrong with addon , just shout at me and ill try my best to get it back to working :)

Why are you giving it for free ?

At first i created it for my self just to check if it is working or not ,then i thought to make it free cause there are very few addons and tricks out there for cycles lighting , so i thought it might be useful for many to do a quick light setups

UPDATE
Dynamic sky addon was added to master branch of Blender 2.79b, so when you download ,you will get it by default in the addon list ,Thats why it has been removed from this page ,
HAPPY BLENDING

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This Script is released under the GNU General Public License

116 Comments

thiago

11/9/2015 04:22:20 am

Hello! it's not working here!

pratik solanki

11/9/2015 05:19:11 am

It should work now ... dont forget to select Dynamic from the world dropdown menu , i have also updated the how to install part , you can check there too

Chris Brantner

5/10/2015 01:16:14 pm

It keeps downloading as a .rar file instead of .zip or .py

Not working for me either

11/9/2015 05:22:07 am

Phil Sullivan

11/9/2015 05:25:49 am

It's OK works fine. Good job there Pratik...

Pratik solanki

11/9/2015 05:48:36 am

Thanks man :)

Ace of space

11/9/2015 05:26:09 am

Not trying to be mean .You might want to fix your spelling mistake it's "panel not penal.

Pratik Solanki

11/9/2015 05:47:17 am

haha thanks for the look up ,, you got it man ,,, and thanks again .. i changed it

mahmoud link

11/9/2015 07:54:16 am

Jay

11/9/2015 09:32:30 am

Awesome and thank you for sharing. It works perfectly!

16/9/2015 11:33:36 am

Thank you

Geofrey

11/9/2015 05:17:40 pm

Thanks.I've been looking for this type of addon for a long time

RAJIV MUDGAL link

12/9/2015 04:53:46 am

Thanks for sharing, Makes life easier.
regards

victory

25/3/2018 06:23:24 am

is it for free because it is asking me for a price

TheDuckCow link

12/9/2015 08:15:46 am

Great procedural generation, a really nice and easy to use addon!

andres link

12/9/2015 04:25:53 pm

GRACIAS :D thax for do this amaizing work and is very good.

Mark

13/9/2015 10:19:53 am

Thats an amazing add on !

leo

15/9/2015 09:49:52 am

Muchas gracias!!

Sven Kummetz

15/9/2015 10:40:58 am

Hey if you need someone to review Your Code. Please let me Know.

riemenschneider

15/9/2015 10:54:37 am

Thank you very much for sharing!:D Very generous!

scott

15/9/2015 11:09:24 am

Why wouldn't you just use an HDRI solution as opposed to this?

16/9/2015 11:36:28 am

IF you use HDRI , it will take lot of time to render single image , This addon is much faster then Any HDRI , Try it your self :) its light and little faster too :)

jbrown

15/9/2015 12:03:26 pm

This looks like a nice add on. But there is a licensing problem, CC BY-SA is not compatible with the GPL ( https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/4.0/Games_3d_printing_and_functional_content#GPL_compatibility) and scripts that use the blender API must be distributed under a compatible licence(http://www.blender.org/support/faq/http://www.blender.org/support/faq/). Please consider licensing this addon as GPL.

16/9/2015 11:38:10 am

Thanks for a look up Jbrown, i ll change it

Xen Wildman

18/9/2015 09:46:21 am

Yeah, the CC-BY-SA license would be a hurdle for me doing Architectural Visualization since I can't attach attribution to the images I create for clients.

18/9/2015 12:56:54 pm

Now its changed , hope it helps :)

15/9/2015 06:56:15 pm

Thanks for the add on, works well!

Javier

15/9/2015 07:33:09 pm

Thanks for sharing Pratik :)
I have not used it yet though.
I see it in the Add-ons list. But it's not showing in the World tab :(
Any ideas?

Thanks!

16/9/2015 11:59:56 am

Hey Javier

please read the How to install tab on this page :)
it will work

16/9/2015 03:37:28 pm

Thank for replying Pratik.
I did follow those instructions. In fact, that's why I can see the addon in the Blender User Prefs/Addons tab, see this snapshot: https://sites.google.com/site/javierwebfolio/_/rsrc/1442442712698/temp/dynamic_sky_addon.jpg

But still, it's not showing in the World tab :(
I'm using Blender 2.75a on Windows 10

17/9/2015 07:52:15 am

Update:
Good & Bad news:

Good = Finally found it! : )
Not in the World tab, but in the Tools tab!

Bad = Nothing is happening.
After I modified a few settings in the Tools bar, I don't see that being reflected in the World tab, not even the Preview window shows ... errr, a preview
Could it have anything to do with Pro-Lighting Skies? ( http://www.blenderguru.com/product/pro-lighting-skies/ )

I had it installed before. But just I clicked the Create button in DS, I dis-activated PLS in the World tab. In Nodes Editor, it unplugs its node from the World Output node, but the PLS node remains there.
I guess I'll try disabling it from the Addons tab in the User Prefs, I'll restart Blender, then I'll try DS again...

17/9/2015 08:39:37 am

Nope!
I hate to report that even after disabling PLS, removing its node, reopening the file to confirm it's gone (and it was). Still, no matter what settings I change in the DS tool panel nothing changes in the Nodes Editor, nor the World tab, and of course neither in the 3D view with any of its displaying/shading methods.
Now I'm out of ideas : (

The ball is on your court now ; )

JDL

18/9/2015 01:00:59 pm

Hey man , sorry for your inconvenience but i ll try my best .. i will release a video showing how it works and how to install , i hope many will find it usefull :)

18/9/2015 02:22:17 pm

Cool! Thanks Pratik :) I guess that will narrow it down to the reason behind this mystery

20/9/2015 06:35:42 am

I have uploaded a Installation video :) hope that helps , and not to worry about PLS , both has different approach so they are not clashing with each other

Javier link

22/9/2015 03:36:26 pm

Thanks so much for the video Pratik. I was only missing going to the World tab and switch to Dynamic. So yes, it is working just fine now! : )

numa

15/9/2015 08:38:14 pm

Rar file is corrupt from download link. Can you share the add-on somewhere else? Thank you for your work, it looks great.

16/9/2015 12:08:12 pm

it is working well , i tried it .... try it again one more time :) hope it works

Andre

15/9/2015 09:52:56 pm

Hi, great plugin, just confused about the cloud color, it affects the upper sky color and not the clouds, perhaps have color attributes for all three: horizon, sky, clouds.

Andreve

15/9/2015 11:34:08 pm

A question more related to a compositing issue and workaround. When you use the dynamic sky and you render out an AO pass, how would you get the sky part of the AO pass white and not black as this negatively influence the sky color in comp when multiplying the AO pass over the image?

VaclavC link

16/9/2015 01:02:21 am

Why it must be an addon and not parametrized node setup?

16/9/2015 12:03:31 pm

Thats because , its not possible to attache few types of options in nodes , like you can not have "Normal ball" in the node groups

GREG P

16/9/2015 01:59:09 am

I cant send a donation vis paypal, it wont let me. sorry.

16/9/2015 12:04:34 pm

Thats so kind of you ,,, you are the first one to try it out , but thanks any way ,, you can even send it to my paypal , dragoneex@gmail.com

Robyn

19/9/2015 05:30:52 am

PayPal is not allowing payments to India, mate - you can from inside India, but we can't from the outside. I tried too. Might want to sort that...

Joey Blendhead link

16/9/2015 05:08:28 am

Hi...
I have Linux Ubuntu, and Blender 2.75, but the Option in the toolbar is completely missing.

Joey link

16/9/2015 05:10:47 am

Never mind, but that's the properties menu, not the tool bar ;)

16/9/2015 06:03:44 am

This may not be unique to Linux/Ubuntu. I have the same problem with Windows 10 :(

16/9/2015 12:16:38 pm

I have not tried it on linux , but i have made it on windows 10 , and its working well, i am putting it on github , so other devs will help with it too :)

ed5978

16/9/2015 08:35:07 am

It is not working on Windows 10. I don't see Dynamic in the menu.

16/9/2015 12:06:10 pm

It should work, i m also using windows 10 and its working right on other pc's too :) please read the "how to install" section

Justin

17/9/2015 08:48:04 pm

I'm getting a completely black screen when I use this and Volume Scatter together. Anyone else having this problem?

Thomas

19/9/2015 10:52:06 am

Hi there,

thanks a lot for your work! I get an error when starting Blender since i installed this script:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.75\scripts\addons\Dynamic Sky.py", line 360, in draw
if bpy.data.worlds['Dynamic']:
KeyError: 'bpy_prop_collection[key]: key "Dynamic" not found'

location: <unknown location>:-1

Hope this is fixable and helps ...

best regards,
Thomas

20/9/2015 06:33:26 am

thanks for look up . i will solve it in next version , :) and very soon

Corteo

8/10/2015 07:42:48 am

Thanks from Spain ;)

Gilbert

24/10/2015 02:01:02 am

Wow! Thank you very much!
Easy to use and a nice Sky as result! Dig the clouds :-)

ulquiorra

14/11/2015 04:43:03 am

not working, keeps on downloading rar file

Sunny link

19/11/2015 05:50:40 pm

Hi Pratik

This is Sunny from India. I would love to use this for a short animation I am doing, will it work with cycles and an AMD GPU R9 390?

dragoneex@gmail.com

19/11/2015 09:28:16 pm

hello sunny
yes sure you can use it .. its free for all ,
and i dont know about amd gpu . i think blender developers are still working on that part

rai

21/11/2015 08:21:49 am

I like this addon but the only thing I feel that its missing is a way to easily animate the clouds ;)

rcgauer

30/11/2015 02:43:39 pm

Very useful... thank you!

Heavyrain link

8/12/2015 05:01:50 pm

Hi, I'm really want to use your dynamic sky but there is some problem to download it. Dropbox said ...

Error (429)
This account's links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!

Could you please email me dynamic sky.rar ? Thanks.

mohamed

19/12/2015 05:03:24 am

thanx it is create ....it working with me

DrPepperCan

20/12/2015 07:35:17 am

First off thanks for sharing such a neat and useful addon!!!
2ndly, it was working on 2.75 (both on Windows 10 & Ubuntu), unfortunately is not working on 2.76b (Ubuntu, have not tried Win10). I am able to select "Dynamic" in the World tab, but no settings show lower in the same tab, nor in the Tools tab for that matter : (
Checking its node setup in the Node Editor I noticed there's no World Output node. I would have added it, but I don't know what node would need to connect to it.
https://sites.google.com/site/javierwebfolio/_/rsrc/1450625257004/temp/dynamicsky_noodle.png

pratik solanki link

21/12/2015 02:39:55 am

Hello DrPepperCan,

thanks i am glad that you liked it , i have checked and its working on 2.76b too .
here what you can try ,
rename the Dynamic worl to "asdasdad" or whatever you like ,
then press create again
and then again select newly created Dynamic node from the dropdown list , i hope you will get it working like this way ,

its not a bug its may be happening because by default at first somehow startup file has been saved after deleting world node setup , but that even doesnt have to create issue ,, anyway , try it and let me know , hope this helps :)

21/12/2015 06:04:13 am

Thank you for the suggestion Pratik :)
You won't believe what it was!
My Start Up file!
My start up file is a skeleton in POSE mode. Dynamic Sky doesn't show while in Pose mode!
This is why I couldn't find it.
Of course once I got out of Pose mode I saw DS settings in the Tools panel, THEN I was able to press create, etc, etc,...

Thanks a million again Pratik ! :)

DPC

jsmovieshd link

25/12/2015 09:16:02 am

It's Awesome. Thanks men. You have to choose the Dynamik Sky material, it was great if it's choosing it at itself.
Sorry for my bad english

Bilbo

13/1/2016 02:26:08 am

Does not work with Mac? .Rar file?

bigbad

2/3/2016 01:59:26 am

Just install 7z and extract the .py file

Matthew Muldoon link

27/1/2016 11:59:08 am

Great add-on I use it a lot, couple ideas/suggestions to consider. First I think the add-on should be located in the World tab rather than the 3D tools tab. This would also be more inline with the thinking of the UI Tab guidelines I think, http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects/UI/Tab_Guidelines

Also for me I know one step that would be cool to take out of the process is assigning the world to the scene. I think this should be automated. Create a dynamic sky and it's auto assigned to the world scene.

Anyways those are just a couple things that came to mind when using it. Thanks again for a great add-on.
Cheers,

Matthew

Sergey

5/4/2016 02:05:30 am

Hello, thank you very much for your work ! Unfortunately , an error message at startup create:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Елена\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.77\scripts\addons

\Dynamic_Sky.py", line 331, in execute
dynamic()
File "C:\Users\Елена\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.77\scripts\addons

\Dynamic_Sky.py", line 68, in dynamic
bg = world.node_tree.nodes['Background']
KeyError: 'bpy_prop_collection[key]: key "Background" not found'

location: <unknown location>:-1

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Елена\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.77\scripts\addons

\Dynamic_Sky.py", line 382, in draw
m = bpy.data.worlds['Dynamic'].node_tree.nodes[28]
IndexError: bpy_prop_collection[index]: index 28 out of range, size 2

location: <unknown location>:-1

Please email me the answer or solution to the problem , I really need this plugin .
Thank you in advance!
Best regards, Sergei!

13/4/2016 01:09:12 pm

Hello Sergey , sorry I left working on it while ago but now I am again workin on new dynamic sky so wait for it .. You will not find any issues in that . And in the mean while I will check if I can solve this issue then I will update it here soon , by the way that error will not create any issues . Afaik

And I am really glad that you liked it

George link

16/7/2016 10:22:58 am

Wow Pratik thanks for your awesome addon mate :)
People like you make Blender great!

bartus link

20/9/2016 02:45:27 am

Can i make an AUR package for your blender addon ?

20/9/2016 03:48:59 am

what is that man? i donno about it .

Krzysztof Szozda link

11/10/2016 11:25:26 pm

Hey there, great one :) works, just need to read instructions carefully :)

IMP

4/11/2016 03:01:31 am

I liked to try it, but the download link doesn't work. :-(

Roger

5/11/2016 12:31:54 am

Sky, Metal and landscape downloads do not work. says too much traffic. Can you attach these to my e-mail ? thanks in advance

Vasos

25/11/2016 01:31:02 am

Excellent addon. Thanks and well done

richo

9/12/2016 07:46:09 pm

great addon, thanks a lot but btw how can i move the horizon?
the horizon seems to high for me (want to lower it), try tweaking it at vector mapping but the sky not changed except for rotation and scale

Parthasarathy

26/12/2016 10:20:51 pm

i really really liked your addon! the sky gave me pain on my neck but its easy now! great work guys
and
thank you!

Kor

6/4/2017 01:17:28 pm

Thank you! Nice add-on, works fine :)

Smith H

20/6/2017 12:44:20 pm

It won't load in Blender 2.78c for me - I'm getting the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\shayward\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\Dynamic Sky.py", line 378, in draw
if bpy.data.worlds['Dynamic']:
KeyError: 'bpy_prop_collection[key]: key "Dynamic" not found'

location: <unknown location>:-1

vishwas

14/7/2017 01:04:06 am

hey why can't i download it for free?

Pratik Solanki link

14/7/2017 01:14:35 am

its free , write 0 in the price , and download it :

StivS

5/8/2017 03:22:29 pm

Playing with Blender 2.79 Release Candidate which includes Dynamic Sky addon. Dynamic Sky seems nice. Thank you, Pratik. And congratulations on getting your work into Blender.

Mike H

18/8/2017 05:28:21 pm

Dynamic Sky does not show up in World tab. I am using the Blender release 2.79 and the addon is enabled. Followed your simple instructions exactly. It's just not there.

Shengdi

22/8/2017 06:40:29 am

Looks like it only works in Blender in English. There's a propierty "background" in the code that doesn't allow it to work properly when blender is in other language

Riccardo

5/9/2017 03:35:47 am

Hello Patrik. I've just realized that your add-on isn't working with the latest builds of Blender ( upcoming version 2.79) due to a change to the class registration (https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/Python/UpdatingScripts#Class_Registration), so I did a couple of corrections to your script at lines 428 (now it reads "class Dynapanel(bpy.types.Panel)") and 430 renaming it as bl_idname = "SCENE_PT_dynskypanel", and now it works. The "dynskypanel" can be changed to something you might better like. Please, consider to update your add-on too. Best regards.

6/9/2017 09:29:09 am

I didn't realized that those changes to the API will affect only the 2.8 branch and the development builds but not the upcoming 2.79. So take this in consideration because your add-on might still work without changes in the next 2.79 release. Sorry for the noise :-)

Snow

13/9/2017 11:39:38 am

Hey, first of all. Congrats on the add-on and making it free. I just discovered this while looking at the 2.79 notes and I already enjoyed. One thing I would suggest is making a temperature option for the SunControl, I know I can go trough the nodes and add a blackbody node there but it's only a feedback. Thank you again!

mogly

15/9/2017 03:16:06 pm

I cant download it. Can somebody please send me .py file on mail ? Thanks ! moglanovic@gmail.com

15/9/2017 03:23:45 pm

It is already part of Blender 2.79 ;)

Fox on the Run

11/11/2017 05:25:15 pm

Not working for me either !! could somebody halp ??

11/11/2017 05:27:03 pm

Forget it. It is already part of blender. peace !!

Jack Andrews

18/1/2018 12:39:39 pm

Can't download Dynamic sky, the download link doesn't work??? just keeps re routing me back and forth on the website???

GuGaX

7/2/2018 10:13:51 am

the download link dont work.

Bartosz

25/3/2018 03:08:42 am

Hi, thanks a lot for your addon! But I have a problem with the final rendering: While in the viewport the render is fine with sky- & sun-lighting, in the final render, the sun (and it´s shadows) doesn´t get rendered, only the sky lighting...

Michelangelo

9/4/2018 01:45:08 am

I would love to thank you......but the download link of all of ur website isn't working anymore! Plz fix it !

djill

13/5/2018 02:29:12 pm

merci mec je voulais installé Pro-Lighting: Skies mais il coûte 197 $ .et franchement Blender 3D c'est la base il est gratuit mais les addon a se prix je peut pas me permettre ton addon me suffi amplement merci merci encore pour ton partage

James

28/7/2018 09:28:47 am

I can't seem to download. The link just brings be back to the same web page.

Dac

26/8/2018 06:16:46 pm

I can not download from your website or from the donation site. I donated $5USD. When I clicked on the download button from one site, it just went to another site.

26/8/2018 09:17:51 pm

hey man .. sorry for inconvinience , but some awesomethings happend in last few months ., blender devs merged my addon in the blender 2.79. so you dont need to download it from here ..
juat go to userpreference and search for dynamic sky ...

Kristen

2/10/2018 07:06:50 pm

Hi Pratik--I really like the Dynamic Sky add-on. I do have a question. I'm seeing a good deal of the horizon in my render and not very much of the beautiful sky. Rather than trying to over-manipulate my scene or my camera perspective, is there a setting I can adjust in the node setup? I took a look, but I can't figure out what makes up the ration of sky versus horizon. Thank you!

20/11/2018 08:22:43 pm

damn thats tought to do man .. i know its pain haha ... but i guess you might wanna check new eevee's sky .. someone posted a file on twitter few days ago .. i cant recall his name .. but do check that out its awesome .. dynamic sky is little bit outdated as of my view

Kevin Fortin

28/12/2018 08:58:58 pm

Wow! What a great idea -- especially for when someone doesn't want to spend time looking for just the right HDRI. Thanks for making this! Glad that it was so successful that it was added to the master branch of Blender.

REGINALD BRADLEY

18/7/2019 10:55:48 pm

Thank you!

Peter

14/8/2019 04:45:07 am

Thanks! Exactly what I needed something quick!

Luke

8/9/2019 05:52:37 am

The steps, screenshots shown do not look anything like what the actual program shows. A total waste

Nick

9/7/2020 12:35:14 pm

That's because these screenshots were taken for an older version of Blender. Anyhow, the steps work just fine and I'm able to get it running on 2.82. It would seem the problem is on your side.

Linda

22/11/2019 04:14:08 am

Hello, I have loved this addon for Blender 2.79 but how do we "Create" the same in Blender 2.81 please?

Jeff link

1/5/2020 11:28:19 am

Hi. Fantastic add on. Is it possible to look down on the sky. My scene is looking down on an object floating in the sky Thanks

Antediluvia

31/8/2020 01:32:10 am

Hi! I'm trying to use Dynamic Sky in blender 2.83.5. I added the plugin through Blenders native add-on section and clicked the create button, and it is asking me to select dynamic_1 from properties > World. Unfortunately dynamic_1 doesn't exist anywhere in my properties menu. What am I supposed to do?

alphonse kilimobenecyo

22/3/2022 07:24:51 am

tres bon ddon

Abilio Fernandes

20/7/2022 04:16:19 pm

Does this addon use any HDRI features?
if so, is it procedural or is it made with images?

is it possible to have sun shadows in blender 3 with this addon?

Thank you for your help

Jan Kadeřábek

13/8/2022 06:45:52 pm

Why don't you just test it, since it is free?
It is procedural and yes, works perfectly with Blender 3 (and it will get you sun shadows) :)