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Tutorial: Creating Day and Night Cycle Shader in Blender

Learn how to show the passage of time in 12 minutes.

Want to make a cool timelapse or just show how the night slowly takes over the virtual world? Then this great tutorial is for you. In the 12-minute video, Kaizen Tutorials shows how to create a day and night cycle shader in Blender.

The chapters include:

  • Enabling the Sun Position add-on
  • Adding in a Sky Texture
  • Using the Sun Position add-on
  • Creating the Night Sky Shader
  • Transitioning from the Daytime to Nighttime shader
  • Adding in Stars to the Night Sky
  • Animating the Stars
  • Final settings for Nightsky shader

The process is done in Blender 3.1. Here are more awesome things you can try there:

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