Settings Reference

intermediate concepts

Material Inspector

Every parameter is grouped into a collapsible section. Click a section header to expand or collapse it, and use the checkbox on the right of the header to enable or disable that feature.

Only pay for what you use - Procedural Haze, the cubemap layers and Night Time compile into the shader only when their checkbox is enabled.

Procedural Haze

Procedural haze projects animated noise onto the skybox. It can be used alone for a foggy or noise-based cloud sky, or combined with cubemap layers.

Parameter	Description
Procedural Haze (toggle)	Enable or disable the procedural haze layer.
Noise	The noise texture used for the haze. A 256x256 Perlin noise texture is included in `Resources/SkyboxPlus/Textures`. You can assign your own.
Tiling	UV tiling of the noise texture (X, Y).
Offset	UV offset of the noise texture (X, Y).
Color	Tint color applied to the haze.
Scale	Controls the size of the noise pattern. Smaller values produce larger, softer clouds.
Threshold	Noise values below this threshold are discarded. Increase to create more defined, separated clouds.
Intensity	Overall brightness of the haze effect.
Rotation Axis	The axis around which the haze rotates (X, Y, Z, W quaternion).
Rotation Speed	Speed of the haze rotation animation. Set to 0 for a static haze.

Layers (Clouds or Mountains)

Each layer blends a cubemap texture on top of the sky. The Clouds shader supports up to 4 layers and the Landscape shader supports up to 7.

Parameter	Description
Layer N (toggle)	Enable or disable this layer.
Cubemap	The cubemap texture for this layer. The asset includes several hand-painted 4K cubemaps.
Alpha	Opacity of this layer (0 = invisible, 1 = fully opaque).
Horizontal Shift	Rotates the cubemap horizontally. Useful for offsetting layers so they don't overlap identically.
Horizontal Speed	Horizontal drift speed at runtime (Clouds shader only). Set to 0 for static clouds.
Vertical Shift	Shifts the cubemap vertically, moving clouds higher or lower on the horizon.
Vertical Motion	Vertical oscillation speed at runtime (Clouds shader only).

Layer stacking tip - combine 2-3 cloud layers at different horizontal speeds and alpha values to create a parallax depth effect.

Sun Settings

The Sun position is driven by the scene's main directional light rotation.

Parameter	Description
Sun Tint	Color tint applied to the Sun disk and its flare/corona.
Sun Size	Angular size of the Sun disk.
Sun Flare	Intensity of the corona glow around the Sun.

Rainbow

A procedural rainbow anchored to the point of the sky opposite the Sun, so it moves correctly as you rotate the directional light. Available in both shaders. Enable the section checkbox, or set Intensity above zero.

Parameter	Description
Intensity	Overall strength of the bow. Zero disables the effect entirely.
Saturation	How pure the colors are. High values give bold, stylized bands; low values give a pale, realistic bow.
Radius	Angular radius of the primary bow in degrees. The default of 42 matches a real rainbow.
Width	Thickness of the color bands.
Secondary Bow	Strength of the fainter outer bow, which shows the color order reversed. Zero hides it.

The bow only appears while the Sun is above the horizon and fades out with the horizon fog, the same way a real one does. It costs no texture fetches.

Preset - the Rainbow material shows a typical configuration after a shower.

Night Time (Moon + Stars)

Enable the Night Time toggle to add a moon and procedural stars. The skybox transitions between day and night automatically as you rotate the directional light past the horizon.

Parameter	Description
Enable Night Time	Master toggle for all night-time features. Only enable if you need day/night transitions or a night skybox.
Moon Texture	Texture used for the moon (a 256x256 moon texture is included).
Moon Size Factor	Scale of the moon disk.
Moon Flare	Glow intensity around the moon.
Moon Phase	Illuminated portion of the moon, from full through half to new. Full by default.
Moon Phase Angle	Orientation of the terminator, so the lit side can face any direction.
Star Size	Size of the procedural star sprites.
Star Density	Number of stars visible in the sky.
Star Brightness	Overall brightness of the stars.
Star Darker Color	Color used for dimmer stars.
Star Brighter Color	Color used for brighter stars.
Star Blinking	Intensity of the star twinkle animation.
Star Clustering	Groups the stars into a dense band with patchy gaps instead of spreading them evenly, for a Milky Way look. Zero keeps the classic even star field.
Star Band Axis	Axis the band is built around. The band runs perpendicular to it, so changing the axis tilts the band across the sky.
Star Band Width	How wide the dense band is.

Second Moon

An extra moon or planet placed anywhere in the sky, useful for science fiction and fantasy settings. It reuses the moon texture and is not tied to the Night Time option, so it can also hang in a daylight sky. Enable the section checkbox, or set Size above zero.

Parameter	Description
Size	Angular size of the body. Zero disables it.
Direction	Direction of the body in world space.
Tint	Color tint applied to the moon texture.
Brightness	Overall brightness of the body.
Phase	Illuminated portion, from full through half to new.
Phase Angle	Orientation of the terminator, so the lit side can face any direction.

Preset - the TwinMoons material places a second, bluish moon next to the main one.

Meteor Showers

Procedural shooting stars that cross the sky at runtime. Available in both shaders. Enable the section checkbox, or set Frequency above zero.

Parameter	Description
Frequency	How often meteors appear. Zero disables the effect entirely.
Simultaneous Meteors	Number of meteors that can be visible at the same time (1 to 4).
Duration	Seconds each meteor takes to travel across the sky.
Size	Thickness of the streak.
Trail Length	Length of the fading trail behind the meteor head.
Color	Tint of the streak.
Brightness	Overall brightness of the streak.
Radiant Direction	The point in the sky the shower appears to radiate from.
Direction Spread	Zero keeps every meteor aligned with the radiant, like a real shower. Higher values scatter them in random directions.

Meteors spawn anywhere in the sky and fade out near the Sun and the Moon glow. The effect is pure math, so it adds no texture fetches.

Preset - the MeteorShower material shows a typical night sky configuration.

Aurora Borealis

Three layered animated curtains with waving ribbons, vertical rays and a soft diffuse base. Available in both shaders. Enable the section checkbox, or set Intensity above zero.

Parameter	Description
Intensity	Overall brightness of the aurora. Zero disables the effect entirely.
Base Color	Color at the bottom of the curtains.
High Color	Color at the top of the curtains. The two colors blend along the vertical gradient.
Elevation	Height of the curtains above the horizon.
Vertical Span	How tall the curtains are.
Waviness	How much the ribbons undulate along the horizon.
Ray Density	Density of the vertical rays inside each curtain.
Speed	Animation speed. Set to zero for a static aurora.

Noise texture required - the aurora samples the Noise texture of the Procedural Haze section. All included materials have it assigned; if you build a material from scratch, assign a noise texture even when the haze is disabled.

Preset - the AuroraNight material shows a typical polar night configuration.

Landscape Emissive Glow

Available in the Landscape shader only. Bright details of the landscape layers keep glowing when the Sun goes down, which is useful for lava flows, city lights or lit windows.

Parameter	Description
Landscape Emissive Glow	Emission strength applied to the brightest texels of the landscape cubemaps. Zero disables the effect.

Other Settings

Parameter	Description
Sky Tint	Global color tint applied to the entire skybox.
Exposure	Overall brightness multiplier.
Fog Color	Color of the horizon fog.
Fog Amount	How far the horizon fog extends vertically. Higher values push the fog higher into the sky.

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