🌅 Dynamic Day/Night Cycle Shaders – Cubemap & Volumetric Versions

Bring your scenes to life with fully dynamic day/night cycles that transition seamlessly from sunrise to sunset, with glowing moons, animated clouds, and twinkling stars. This package includes two complete systems — one for cubemap-based skies and one for volumetric skies — so you can choose the style that best fits your project.

✨ Features :

• Volumetric Sky – Real-time procedural rendering with dynamic cloud formations.Two Day/Night Cycle Systems.

• Cubemap Sky – Ideal for pre-rendered or stylized skyboxes.

• Adjustable intensity, color, size, glow, and glare.Sunlight color is automatically synced with your scene’s Directional Light.

• Automatic Sun & Moon Movement – Realistic directional lighting that follows the sun’s and moon’s positions.

• Dynamic Gradients & Atmospheric Colors – Customizable top and bottom sky gradients for smooth day/night transitions.

• Animated Clouds – Adjustable speed, scale, density, altitude, and detail (cubemap version). Procedurally generated clouds with seed-based randomness and wind direction (volumetric version).

• Stars & Night Sky – Control star intensity, size, and random seed for endless variations.

• Works in Edit Mode and Play Mode.

• Time Control – Adjustable day length in minutes. timeOfDay slider for instant preview and cinematic control. Automatically fade in and out based on the time of day.

🎯 Perfect For :

• Open-world games.

• Flight simulators.

• Fantasy RPGs.

• Stylized or realistic environments.

• Any project needing a living, breathing sky.

📦 Included :

• DayNightCycleCubemap.cs – Controls cubemap-based dynamic skies.

• DayNightCycleVolumetric.cs – Controls volumetric procedural skies.

• Fully documented public variables for easy customization.

• Compatible with URP Render Pipeline (HDRP version possible with minor adjustments).