Ultra Dynamic Sky is a sky system designed to be more dynamic and natural than most sky solutions, offer a great degree of flexibility and customization options, with an interface designed for speed and simplicity.
Features
• Set a single Time of Day variable and have every aspect of the sky update along with it, making changing the time your scene takes place a one step process.
• Fully dynamic, with customizable clouds, moon and stars.
• A built in lighting solution with sun, moon and sky lighting all synced with the sky.
• Adjust cloud coverage from a clear sky to overcast.
• Animate a day/night cycle with a single click.
• Dynamic aurora effects
• Multiplayer ready
• Choose from volumetric 3D clouds, 2D dynamic clouds, static clouds, and even volumetric auroras.
• A full weather system is included, Ultra Dynamic Weather, which adds rain, snow, lightning, and more to your scene in seconds.
• Enable Simulation features, which calculate the real world position of the Sun, Moon and Stars, using latitude, longitude, date and time.
Note for 4.8 to 4.25:
Please refer to the image above labelled Features by Version for the major points of what is included in older versions. For a look at the older versions, see the old product videos here: 4.24 to 4.25 and 4.8 to 4.23
Version 9.0
For UE 5.5 and 5.6
Sky
Simplified Color has been reworked. It now very closely matches the sky atmosphere in most contexts with default settings, while still being adjustable with its color tint settings in the same ways as before. Note the old approach with the atmospheric scattering LUT texture has been replaced with sun and moon LUT volume textures formatted differently.
Since changes in 5.5 made the cloud rendering mode UDS exposes as “Background Only Clouds” not strictly limited to the background anymore, the names and descriptions of the volumetric cloud rendering modes have been rewritten to better communicate their behavior in 5.5.
Feature Levels on UDS for “Mobile Forward” and “Mobile Deferred” have been combined into one Mobile option. The system now sees if forward or deferred is in use by querying the project configuration.
Improved logic for Directional Lights Absent Brightness, to get more consistently scaled brightness with different modes and settings
Added an option to the Space Planet struct to make the planet render as just a ring around the local planet. A new planet preset is included as an example.
Improved behavior of path tracer fog post process in heavy fog, when used with volumetric fog enabled
2D Cloud Shadows will now project at an angle consistent with the sun/moon orientation, instead of straight down by default. This is adjustable with a new setting in Cloud Shadows.
Some changes to reduce rendering artifacts with volumetric fog and volumetric clouds together
Added a static overcast sky texture to the static clouds for more natural overcast skies in that mode. The texture can be adjusted or replaced in the Static Clouds category.
Some improvements to coloring/lighting on static clouds
Added an option, enabled by default, for Static Clouds to fade opacity down for clear skies.
Added settings to the global volumetric fog material on UDS to add extra global extinction from rain/snow/dust.
Added an option to UDS to force the sky material to sample the DBuffer for the space layer, even if no planets/moons/nebula are enabled.
Exposed a setting to control the update period for cloud movement
Added a warning message if the project uses a project setting which breaks fog colors
Added a setting for “Exposure Bias Dawn/Dusk” to exposure settings on UDS
Cleaned up some alpha edge artifacts from included static clouds textures
Fixed a few variables on UDS not being included in saved configurations
Fixed the conflicts which could be caused by assigning one sky modifier to multiple weather presets transitioning between each other.
Fixed volumetric cloud painting textures sometimes not drawing in when opening a level for the first time in the editor.
Weather
Added a system for Environment Sound to UDW. This is built to help with setting up general ambient audio which changes with time and weather, and is affected by UDW’s full directional sound occlusion. Its set up for users to author their own Environment Sound assets, and a function call on UDW can enable/disable and transition between them at runtime.
Added functionality to UDW to periodically spawn Radial Storm actors, positioned and animated so they pass over the player’s location. This can be enabled and configured in a new Radial Storm Spawning category.
Added new functionality to UDW for wind gusts. Wind can vary intensity using a stream of noise, for more natural randomized gusts/lulls in wind. You can scale the intensity and speed of that noise with settings in a new Wind Gusts category.
Added a new widget blueprint, UDW Current Weather Display, which can display the current weather from UDW, either as an icon or text description.
Reworked UDW support for a Wind Directional Source. Instead of linking to a Wind Directional Source actor, UDW will construct a Wind Directional Source component, if “Enable Wind Directional Source” is turned on, which it is by default. There’s also an option for “Disable Directional Source Speed in Interior”, useful for example when the wind directional source is only being used to affect chaos cloth on the player character.
Added an option for UDW to apply a camera shake when the camera is exposed to heavy winds. Found in a new Wind Camera Shake category, disabled by default.
Added a function to UDW, Get Wind Speed in Real Units, which outputs approximated values for wind speed represented in Knots, MPH, and KPH.
Made a new version of Dynamic Landscape Weather Effects (V3) which uses a material attributes pin for its input and output, similar to Surface Weather Effects. It also has some new inputs for adjusting behavior with nanite tessellation displacement. The V2 function is still included for now, for legacy support.
Added a setting to determine if UDW will derive Season from date as meteorological seasons or astronomical seasons. The default is now meteorological seasons.
Added deterministic control for the weather particles on UDW, controlled via the Random Seed setting in Basic Controls.
Added a Height Falloff option to the Weather Override Volume to have its effect on weather state fade out either above or below its Z position.
Rain and Snow particles now get their ambient light from the translucency volume. Their ambient light variables still exist, but are called “extra ambient light” and default to 0.
Reworked how sound occlusion and spatialization is applied to weather sounds. The global and directional weather sound sources now output to an audio bus which a metasound source called Weather Sound Mixer applies directional occlusion and stereo panning to. Allows additional sound sources (like the new environment sound system) to have the same effects applied to them without additional cost.
Added a Season Debug to the Season category on UDW, to more clearly convey how the Season float value is interpreted.
Added an option to Material Effects on UDW to shift snow/dust coverage with the wind direction
Exposed sound source assets for UDW sound effects to variables in the Sound Effects category
Added an option for Heat Distortion to use the localized temperature (from the player occlusion location) instead of the global temperature.
Removed the volumetric fog particles option from UDW. If you’ve been using this feature, I would recommend using the global volumetric material, configured on UDS. It can achieve similar results of volumetric fog extinction moving with the weather effects, and much more efficiently.
Added a master volume control for all the weather sound effects.
Changed Movement Update Threshold on Radial Storms to be entered as a fraction of Outer Radius
Added a variable to DLWE Interaction Settings to control the object types queried for when testing for landscape collision
Added an option to the Temperature Volume to replace the temperature inside the volume with a direct value.
Added “Getting Foggy” and “Fog Clearing” event dispatchers to UDW
Improvements to DLWE snow/dust normal behavior on static meshes
Added an input to the DLWE function to scale a windswept normal texture aligned to wind direction
Added functions to UDW to directly toggle on/off entire features at runtime (each type of weather particles, sound effects, screen effects, etc)
Removed the legacy “Wet Weather Effects” and “Snow and Dust Weather Effects” material functions
Added a variable to the Wind Physics Force to define what bone to apply the force to if the parent is a skeletal mesh.
Added simple white alpha masked versions of the weather preset icons, linked as a new variable in the data assets.
Fixed a bug with change weather transitions in progress being applied as part of a save structure not affecting the clients correctly in multiplayer
Fixed rain drip spline icicles not being affected correctly by WOV material target
Fixed puddle normal ripples not rendering correctly on mobile
Fixed applying a saved UDS state not correctly affecting random weather changes in progress
Fixed cloud movement direction not immediately updating at runtime if wind direction on UDW changes with no other weather changes.
Shared/Tools
Changed Configuration Manager so it can gather config assets from any folders, not just the ones it saves to. Also added text to config thumbnails indicating the version of UDS they were saved with (applies to new configs saved moving forward)
Added a slider to scale the interface and text in the documentation utility, and made it so right clicking images will open them in a browser.
Many variables on UDS and UDW now represent the units they use
Added mobile support for features: Space Layer, Weather Masks, DLWE Snow/Dust Trails, WOV Material Target
Made the Mini Controls utility show controls for date, if UDS is using Simulate Real Sun.
Added “Hide Sky” and “Hide Weather” functions to UDS and UDW, to act as a simple way at runtime to hide/show the actors or specific elements like lights, fog, weather particles, etc.
Added an entry to documentation about how to install updates for UDS
Visual refresh to the UDS/UDW actors appearance in editor
Fixed editor preview of player occlusion sometimes not behaving the same as runtime, and not reaching full occlusion
Fixed errors which could happen when using occlusion portal components in some streaming/world partition contexts
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