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What is Skybox Plus?

Skybox Plus is a dynamic skybox solution for Unity that combines real-time animated haze, procedural clouds and hand-painted multi-layered cubemaps into a single, easy-to-use material.

With two specialized shaders - Clouds (up to 4 cubemap layers) and Landscape (up to 7 cubemap layers) - you can build anything from a minimalist foggy sky to a richly layered panorama with animated clouds, sun, moon and stars.

Fully shader-based - Skybox Plus runs entirely inside the skybox shader. No additional cameras, render textures or MonoBehaviors are required for standard setups.

Key Features

Procedural Sky

  • Procedural Haze - animated noise-based fog and cloud effects projected onto the skybox.
  • Customizable noise - swap in your own noise texture, or tweak scale, threshold and intensity for different looks.
  • Rotation axis and speed - animate the haze along any axis for a subtle, ever-changing sky.

Layered Cubemaps

  • Up to 4 cloud layers (Clouds shader) or 7 landscape layers (Landscape shader) that blend on top of the procedural sky.
  • Per-layer controls - alpha, horizontal shift, horizontal speed, vertical shift and vertical motion.
  • Animated clouds - cloud layers let sunlight shine through and can drift across the sky at runtime.
  • Opaque mountains - landscape layers render fully opaque, perfect for distant mountain silhouettes.

Sun, Moon & Stars

  • Sun - configurable size, flare and tint that follows the main directional light direction.
  • Night time mode - enable a moon with custom texture, procedural stars with density, brightness, color range and blinking.
  • Day/night transitions - simply rotate the directional light; the skybox transitions from day to night automatically.

Additional Features

  • Exposure and sky tint - global brightness and color controls.
  • Horizon fog - configurable horizon fog with custom color and amount.
  • VR support - Single Pass Stereo and MultiView via a lightweight helper script.
  • 30+ ready-made materials - included presets covering clear skies, cloudy days, haze effects and more.

Compatibility

  • Unity 2020.3 LTS or newer.
  • Works with Built-in, URP and HDRP render pipelines (skybox materials are pipeline-agnostic).
  • Supported on all platforms including mobile, consoles and VR.
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