Sky Master ULTIMATE v5.0 features

- Biomes system, triggered by splat map features or region center points

- Optimized Real time global illumination, voxel based and screen space versions

- Global controller to tie the day night system, biomes and new clouds together

- New eclipse system

- Interactive snow system

- Vertex based rain and snow for massive performance boost in weather effects

Sky Master ULTIMATE v4.0 features

- Added the new volumetric cloud system with better lighting, atmospheric light scatter and fly through support.

Sky Master ULTIMATE v3.4 features

- New Gradient and Curve based coloration and parameter adjustment system for easy and powerful sky, cloud and fog control

- Volumetric evolving clouds with light scatter and fogging

- Volumetric lighting system for sun shafts on any sun direction with light scatter

- New water features including embedded fogging in water shader

- Caustics and underwater enhancements

- Enhanced configurator system, with increased usability

- Rainbow system for rainy weather

- Volcano added in Special FX

- New Shuriken option for Volumetric Particle clouds

- Support for Relief Terrain Pack (RTP) asset snow and water-rain on land features

- More options for wind controls on clouds

- New weather event system features, including weather looping

- Support for Infinite terrains with player follow system

- Support for InfiniGRASS v2.0

Sky Master v3.3 features:

- New moon positioning, fading & phases system with accurate lighting from sun, based on latitude/longitude and TOD

- New volume cloud shaders, with atmospheric scattering

- New galaxy system, with dynamic stars

- Eclipses handling

- Complete mobile demo scene

- New river flow shader

New Sky Master v3.2 features:

- New volume cloud shaping feature, for customized cloud formations

- New enchanced GI Proxy demo scene & controls

- Underwater transitions on actual wave height option & controls

- Added first version of mobile water (supports toon texture, reflection, transparency, foam & shore FX, specular, fresnel control, local waves & interaction with player, gerstner waves, optimized performance)

- Added local wave controls

Sky Master ULTIMATE v3.0 Features

Extreme optimization, all systems working together (sky-ocean-volume clouds-shader clouds) may take as little as 4ms CPU usage or less.

Ocean - Water system

- Spectacular & performant bodies of water

- Underwater emulation (fog, caustics, sun beams, transition works from water level)

- Reflection and refraction

- Foam and shore lines

- Presets (e.g. Ocean, River, Lake, Atoll)

- Extremely fast GPU based solution

- Wave height calculation & floating objects

- Point light support

- Local waves & ripples

​Volumetric clouds

- New fade in/out system

- New shader with scatter effect for realism

- New vertical formation option

- Point light interaction for volumetric lightning

- Smooth cloud motion & wind emulation

- Particle rotation stabilization system on Camera roll

New dynamic lightning system, with branches & glow effect

Moon phases

Latitude / Longitude based Sun Positioning

Snow System

- New snow & mud puddle shader, for meshes and Unity terrain, SM2.0-3.0 support

- Gradual snow coverage & melt away

- Integration with InfiniGRASS asset, Unity & SpeedTree trees-billboards, meshes.

Liquids

- New water drops on camera shader, with refraction & water drop motion

- Screen freeze effect integrated in the shader

Volume Lit particles

- Particle shader that receives light (directional & point/spot light)

Shader Based Cloud Dome for emulation of higher clouds

Sky Master Editor - Configurator - Library

- Global configurator for easy sky-ocean creation & control of Sky Master systems

- Particle scaler

- Library with ready to use sky, water & cloud presets

Volume Weather

- New Volume Weather module that uses the volumetric clouds & fog for realistic weather effects.

- New refractive rain & splashes

- Weather events system

New Airplane - Boat - Atoll demos/mini games

Sky Master ULTIMATE v2.0 Features

- Volumetric fog as image effect, for spectacular atmospheric effects, with precision gradient color control

-Centralized Volumetric fog and sun beams control with preset system, for easy access to various settings.

-Speed Tree integration and seasonal color control of Unity terrain placed trees

-New special effects like chain lightning, Refractive lit rain, ice spreading, flocks

-Custom Prefab Creation scene, with detailed Instructions to help put together a custom prefab

-Volumetric cloud enchancements including TOD control & sprite sheet use for texture variety.

-Volumetric cloud shadows & lightning

-New lightning modes with line rendering, for extra detailed effects

-Integration with Horiz(ON) asset

-New moon rendering controls and presets

-New preset samples for sky rendering, fog and clouds, ready to use directly in game

- NEW(v1.5)-Complete integration with Unity 5 & all its features (IBL, GI, Skybox) with the new skybox mode.

- NEW(v1.5)-Artistic dynamic effects in sky shading (e.g. heat haze shimmering, sepia)

- NEW(v1.5)-New performance oriented shader & asset bundle & more ready to use prefabs.

- NEW(v1.5)-Volumetric scatter fog shading for mesh and Unity terrains

- REAL SKY - Physically based atmospheric scattering, for realistic sky rendering & Artistic special effects.

- REAL CLOUDS - Dynamic cloud formations, affected by season and wind. Volumetric particle clouds & fog.

- REAL SUN RAYS - Dynamic sun beams, with smooth transitions & occlusion system.

- REAL WEATHER - Seasonal control of weather effects, with smooth transitions

- REAL STORM - Heavy storm simulation, with dynamic cloud fronts, lightning & lighting effects

- REAL TORNADO - Dynamic controllable tornadoes

- REAL FREEZE - with Ice system, for ice spreading, propagation and stick to objects.

- REAL VOLCANO -realistic volcanic eruption, smoke & lava flow.

- REAL LIGHTING - Global Illumination Proxy for indirect lighting.

- IBL Proxy for Sky color based lighting.

- Area lights Proxy (with point lights), GI enabled.

- Support for Jove point lights for GI.

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