Dynamic sky

Did you know that in your 3D scenes, Sphere lets you position the sun at any time of the day? Have you ever thought to put your user in a situation even closer to reality?

This indeed gives you the freedom to design your 360°/VR experience down to the finest details.

As you well know, in Sphere you can generate a dynamic sky as a panorama, if your 3D universe doesn’t require a panorama in the background for example.

By default, Sphere will generate a dynamic sky if you don’t put a 360° panorama into your scene.

It’ll therefore be regulated to generate a sky with the sun at its peak (i.e. noon).

How to modify the position of the sun according to the time of day?

I propose you watch this video below which explains this feature quite simply:

As you’ve seen in the video, to modify the values of the sky, you simply:

• Click on the parameter gear  next to your scene
• Then “Define a background“
• And finally change the values assigned by default

Here are some examples of useful values: 

• Put 6am to generate a sunrise
• Put 12pm to put to sun right above you
• Put 6pm to generate a sunset
• Put 12am to simulate night without sun

Now you know how to set your background parameters to generate a dynamic sky in Sphere!

Looking forward to reading your comments and discussing with you! 👨‍💻👩‍💻😃

See you soon in the next tutorial! 🙂