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Physically Based Atmosphere

The plugin allows access to a material that offers a multitude of parameters to adjust and create a variety of unique and realistic atmospheres. All atmospheres are calculated by considering the sun’s position, the planet’s position, and the point of view to allow the realistic rendering of the atmosphere. If the relationship between those influence factors and the atmosphere changes, it updates automatically.

Based on different material instances for each atmosphere, it is possible to render multiple different-looking atmospheres simultaneously.

Technical Details

Features:

Physically Based Atmosphere Shader based on Rayleigh and Mie Scattering
Easy to use plug and play components: Atmosphere Component to display the atmosphere, Atmosphere Sun Component to automatically set the sun position
Caching of intermediate values to improve performance
Customizable from realistic earth like atmosphere to alien planets

Code Modules:

Atmosphere, Runtime Module

Number of Blueprints: 0

Number of C++ Classes: 3

Network Replicated: No

Supported Development Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Supported Target Build Platforms: Any

Important/Additional Notes:

Currently, there is no inside view for the Atmosphere.
The material for the atmosphere can be applied to shapes other than spheres, but decent results can only be expected with spherical shapes.
The textures of the planets in the screenshots are NOT part of the plugin. To download them, visit: https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/

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Platforms	HoloLens 2, Linux, MacOS, Other, Oculus, Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Android, iOS
UE Versions	5.0 - 5.1
Tags	REALISTIC, ENVIRONMENTS, PHYSICALLY ACCURATE, PLANET, ATMOSPHERE, SKY, PHYSICALLY BASED, PLANET SHADER, SHADER
Release date	06.12.2022