SilverLining 3D Clouds and Skies for OpenGL and DirectX

Crepuscular rays, god rays, or rays of light from the sun behind SilverLining's 3D clouds.

Dynamic Skydomes for Any Time and Location

SilverLining produces accurate skies for any given time and location, fast and automatically. Spend your art resources on something else.

Real atmospheric scattering simulation
Ephemeris model for accurate sun & moon
Crepuscular Rays (“God Rays”)
Accurate stars and planets at night
Fast performance
New Hosek-Wilkie sky color algorithm
Dynamic time of day effects
Provides tone-mapped natural light sources to light your scene
Realistic twilight lighting effects
Accurate moon phases
High-altitude effects and atmospheric limb from space

Sundog's SilverLining 3D Clouds and Dynamic Sky in a Unity project.

Easy Integration With Your Engine

SilverLining integrates into most engines with just a few lines of code. Like hundreds of other developers worldwide, you’ll be up and running quickly.

Support for Vulkan, OpenGL, DirectX9, and DirectX11
Unity integration sold and supported by SimBlocks.io
Libraries for Windows (x64 or ARM64) or Linux
Built-in integration with osgEarth and OpenIG
Sample code for OpenSceneGraph (OSG), VulkanSceneGraph (VSG), Rocky, and Diligent Engine included
C++ and C# API’s provided
Works with any coordinate system, including whole-Earth ECEF / geocentric
Fast, responsive technical support

Real Volumetric, 3D Clouds – Real Fast.

We use multiple volumetric rendering techniques to give you the most realistic 3D clouds at the best performance. We’ll conjure up any weather you want.