Outdoor scene lighting engine

Your outdoor scenes include more than just the sky and clouds. SilverLining™ can help you accurately light everything else.

The SilverLining™ library will return to you the same directional and ambient light information it uses to illuminate its own clouds. This light information is subjected to a sophisticated tone mapping operation; the actual range of luminance between day and night is much more than a computer monitor or projector can display.

SilverLining™ actually simulates how the human eye and brain responds to light, so for example – moonlit nighttime scenes still remain visible (but without color perception and with a blue shift). Night smoothly turns into day, with a warm glow from the rising sun illuminating your scene.

Physically-based outdoor scene lighting provided by SilverLining™ lends extra realism to your outdoor scenes. Your moonlit nights will look just like humans perceive them and expect them to look, and daytime scenes will take on the proper hues from the direct sunlight and scattered, ambient skylight.