Sky, fog and time of day

Set up sky, fog, time of day and other ambience for a level.

What it’s for

This area shapes the look of a level’s world: the sky, the fog, the time of day and the atmosphere. Ask your assistant to add or remove environment actors such as a sky sphere, a fog volume or procedural terrain. It can also save the current environment as a snapshot and load it back later.

It can also adjust the live scene directly: brighten or dim the sun and skylight, or move the time of day. When you want a modern, physically based sky, ask for a SkyAtmosphere, a VolumetricCloud or a reflection capture, with the settings you describe applied right away.

Use it when you are dressing a scene: setting a mood, lighting a screenshot, or giving a fresh level its first sky. For the sun and sky lights themselves, see Lighting. To fine-tune any setting on the actors it creates, see Object properties.

Things you can ask

Add a physically based sky

You get a sky atmosphere with the scattering you asked for, ready for further edits.

You: Add a sky atmosphere with a hazier, thicker look.

Added a sky atmosphere named MoodSky to the level and raised its scattering for a hazier look.

Set a golden-hour mood

The sun moves to late afternoon and dims for a warm, low evening light.

You: Make it late afternoon and soften the sun.

Set the time of day to 17:30 and dimmed the sun to an intensity of 3.

Add a fog volume

A fog volume appears at the spot you describe and adds depth to the scene.

You: Add some fog near the valley floor.

Added a fog volume at (1200, -400, 80), near the valley floor.