Thank you so much! We’re so glad your finding the tutorials useful and enjoying the add on! - HF

Hi Kyle, thanks for your feedback. All the UI specific buttons have tool-tips when you hover over them, for example when you hover over the settings cog, this states: "When turning True-Sky on, automatically assign True-VFXs recommended settings for rendering" So this will apply those settings only when you enable True-Sky. In version 1.1, we added in the user preferences all the recommended settings that we have enabled and what they are at default, so the user can adjust these to their liking, or revert them back if they wish. Yes, we can do a tutorial on how to animate clouds, but it's as simple as clicking the animation button in the help section, and then just pasting into any of the location values of the clouds. This video shows clouds being added to an existing project. Clouds should never not appear, as we handle the view clipping with that little cog mentioned before. The clouds aren't on the terrain, that's fog from the fog panel. Some clouds behave differently to others, and this is why some clouds have a 'coverage' option, and others don't and some clouds have "band fluffiness" and others don't. Not all clouds are the same, and therefore require different functions to allow artistic control. Location controls may not seem to do anything because the clouds are high up, and controls are in meters. So if you change it to 50m then you've only moved the clouds 50 meters. Due to the height of clouds (depending on how high you made them) then the parallax effect will make it as if there's been no change. If you have a terrain that is 1km wide, and you only move the clouds 50m then they will not look as though they have moved.

Do you know if they've already implemented this?

We’ll thank you kind sir! We are currently in the process of testing night skies (and all that comes with them!) which be added SOON. 💫 -HF

To be totally honest I wouldnt say it's better. It's different. We offer much more accurate cloud and atmospheric systems. PSA offers render speed and Eevee compatibility along with I believe stars and such. They're comparable in terms of other functions. It really depends on what you're looking for. If you're after a product that offers great skies and render times along with Eevee support then I'd say go for PSA as right now we don't support Eevee. If you're after better clouds, volumetric fogs and haze and light/shadow rays and can accept that your render times will be longer then True-Sky is a good option.

@@True-VFX That upright answer triggers an instant purchase reaction for me, despite already owning PSA which is also good. Also, the great fog, haze and cloud options look very attractive.

I have both and both can be used for different purposes. I found that for large scale landscape scenes, the fog/volume can be a nice touch with the True Sky addon. PSA addon works the best with timelapses or moving clouds/lighting transitions and clean gradient sunsets. PSA is also much faster. If you're looking for an addon that gives you the fastest, cleanest, accurate "weather" volumetrics, True Sky is it. If you want to light your scene quickly and the keep the sky simple, PSA is your best move. (In my opinion)

Thank you so much for your support and feedback!

Thank you so much for your feedback Deiby. We will be creating more tutorials for True-Sky don’t you worry! In regard to render times, check out our video on render times and if you join our discord discord.gg/true-vfx we will be able to help you with anything you may need! - HF

@@True-VFX question, i just download the free test of the addon. Take 7.50 m a single frame. With optix in a rtx 3060ti, with 128 samples. thats normal render time?

@@degibocu Hey, this sounds a little longer than what we'd expect, we tested a 3060 (non ti) around 6 minutes and 10 seconds using these Benchmarks on the "balanced" scene, and then 1 minute and 7 seconds on the "fastest" scene. I would advise making sure that you're on the latest build of Blender and that you have the most updated GPU drivers for your card (these can be found at Nvidia's website under "drivers", or using the Geforce experience app). There also other factors that can bottleneck render times, like your CPU or motherboard may not be able to provide your card with the bandwidth etc. We will have a video up showing render times on a 1080, 3060, 2070mobile and 3090 soon.

Thank you very much! At the moment, no there is no tool built into True-Sky to do that. However that’s a great idea and we can look into adding it! Saying that, manually you can. -HF

@@True-VFX Thank you!

WOOHOO! This is why we do what we do. If you haven’t all ready, please join our discord community as we’d love to see what you’re creating! discord.gg/true-vfx - HF

As awesome as Blender Kit is, we haven't got a collab with them 😢

I’m sorry to hear that you are having problems. It’s a little more in-depth and would be much easier for us to show you! Could you jump into our discord? discord.gg/true-vfx And we can show you what to do! -HF

We have a full breakdown on how to install True-Sky here: docs.true-vfx.xyz/docs/how-to-install-ts - HF

We’ll try and get some tutorials done for this! If you join our discord channel we’ll be able to answer any questions you have AND see some of the awesome work you’re creating! discord.gg/true-vfx - HF

If you jump into our discord server we’ll be able to talk you through the process! discord.gg/true-vfx - HF

This is coming SOON to True-Sky. If you join our discord community, we post updates of what we’re working on there and get suggestions from our community! discord.gg/true-vfx - HF

@@True-VFX YES! i knew it! Bought True-Sky a few days ago with the discount so I'm super excited!

Clouds, atmospherics and fogs are all volumetric

This is something we’re working on as we speak! If you check out Discord out: discord.gg/true-vfx you will be able to see what we’ve been working on and what’s coming to True-Sky! - HF

No it doesn’t. True-Sky and True-Terrain are two separate addons, that can be used together! The blender market summer sale is on at the minute so you can get 25% off! -HF

True-Sky has nothing to do with Terrains and cameras. We cover that in our True-Terrain videos 🌤️

@@True-VFX Not how to create the terrain but how to position the terrain and the camera to get the best results.

Yes

Hi Christian, You’ll need to get in touch with the creators of Mirage to discuss this. - HF

Maybe...

@@True-VFX True filmmaker leaving me on a cliffhanger…..

Hi Michael We automatically set up the camera provided you have one in your scene. So the clipping information doesn't matter nor does it change how long it takes to render anything. Regarding render times, 45 minutes seems a little long if the only thing you changed was the sky. 30 seconds to 5 minutes per frame seems more reasonable and we've shown render times in this video: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/mWiTa5iEnZimp4U.html If you're struggling with render times please join our discord channel where we can help you.