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The asset does include a widget blueprint called Onscreen Controls, with sliders for time/weather. You could use it directly or as a reference.

For the sun and clouds, it would be a significant modification of the sky and cloud materials. Not something you could do just with the normal settings. The moon would be easier, as it has a simple exposed setting for a custom texture which could be square.

@@everettgunther929 I could modify sky and cloud materials, at least I think that is within my skill set. thanks for the quick response

The effect will render into the infinite distance on its own. I would say make sure your landscape mesh isn't being swapped for something else in the distance like an HLOD.

Sounds like something in the level is blocking or conflicting with the sky material at runtime? Get in touch at the support email if you want help troubleshooting. That's support@ultradynamicsky.com

Like the color/intensity of the light? Sure, those are exposed to cinematics so you can keyframe them from a sequence. If you mean the angle of the light, that's also doable. Time of Day and other methods of moving the sun can be keyframed from a sequence.

The default ambient light in UDS is a movable sky light. The renderer using material AO in that context will depend on your project's rendering config mainly, as well as the engine version. It's not something UDS will interfere with itself.

@@everettgunther929 Can you tell me how to enable display of AO map when adding UDS, with other default settings? I already broke my head..

@@Belarus9000 Get in touch at the support email with the details of the context: the engine version, project's rendering config, what mobility of lights you're using, and I can try and help you out. That's support@ultradynamicsky.com

You can get in touch at the support email for help. That's support@ultradynamicsky.com

Yes, the time and weather are replicated by default.

@@everettgunther929 awesome. Bought.

It's not something I have any experience with myself. UDS does have a widget of its own, Onscreen Controls, which exposes basic time/weather controls on screen, if that's what you're looking for.

@@everettgunther929actually I find the node to change weather, this is the best asset of unreal 🙏 thank you so much for creating it

Make sure you have set the volumetric cloud rendering mode, as shown at 5:37

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No, it's not something the path tracer is completely capable of. UDS' path tracer support works around this by having the lights dim down globally in high cloud coverage.

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Well... As I was writing I though "hmmm all For Each Loop With Break seems to have problem". So, for anyone that my have this problem. I changed de For Each Loop With Break node in the DLWE component for a new one and now works just beautiful as always.

@@neriverso Strange, not an issue I've ever seen or had reported. I'd guess something went wrong with that node when loading and compiling the blueprint? Couldn't say why.

@@everettgunther929 it's not a UDS problem, it's a Engine problem. I guess is something related to C++ code library and it's update to 5.4. Thank you for your support, I love UDS

You can add any number of moons/planets with the Space Layer features. For an additional sun (which operates as a light source) you would be limited to customizing the moon to look like a second sun, which you could do.

Yes, UDS has event dispatchers for sunset and sunrise you can bind to.

@@everettgunther929 Thanks!

I'd say look to the variable Exposure Test Bounds and make sure that's set to something that will work for the actor. Those are the bounds which line traces will test against to see if the actor is exposed to the weather.

@@everettgunther929 I found out what my problem is, I added a large collision sphere around my character to detect objects for various game mechanics. That sphere is being taken in the bounds and that's why the rain always collides with it. By changing the DrawDebugType of the LineTrace in "Trace Bounds For Exposure Values" I realized this. Thanks for your quick response. Now I'm going to modify Actor_Weather_Status a little to use the Custom Component for Bounds of Test Actor For Weather Exposure.

@@everettgunther929 Oh forget it, I don't have to modify anything, changing Exposure Test Bounds to Root Component Bounds is enough

You could customize the moon to look like a second sun. Or you could use the Space Layer to place a bright object next to the sun.

Not without any additional work, but it can be done, sure. You would need to either A: Modify the megascan foliage controller to reference UDW for its wind state, B: Modify the foliage master material to reference UDW parameters for wind state, or C: replace the foliage wind effect entirely with UDW's generic Foliage Wind Movement function.

@@everettgunther929 Thanks !

You could potentially adjust the settings for the moon to make it appear like a second sun, and use the space layer to render the 3 moons.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean to ask. Understand, UDS light components are normal directional lights and a sky light, the same as exist in light actors. When using UDS you typically shouldn't add additional ones to your scene as they would conflict.

my question is to make lighting inside volumetric clouds whereever i want. so it feels like there its about to rain and thunder lightning happening inside the volumetric clouds

@@everettgunther929 12:16 there is a lightning inside clouds , the left side of lightning seems it is happening under clouds , the same thing i want to get where i put the point light inside clouds.

@@everettgunther929 any chance to light clouds with point lights as per needed placement ? or with any other lightning materials ?

@@futureframe1985 You could try using the cvar r.VolumetricCloud.EnableLocalLightsSampling 1 It's not something the UDS blueprint touches.

This would just be a launcher bug. I'd say try restarting the launcher, and if that doesn't work, you should contact Epic's marketplace support for help with troubleshooting a launcher issue.

@@everettgunther929 thanks! i see we can now paint the cloud density also? amazing! Kudos!

Sure, the Weather Mask tools exist to mask material effect coverage in spaces. The readme entry "Masking Material Effect Coverage" goes over those.

@@everettgunther929 Yes I found them, thank you. Didn't realize it would be a separate blueprint.

Reflections of the sky/clouds in unreal fall back to the sky light capture. Which by default is a low resolution. You could increase it if you need to, UDS doesn't set the value itself. It's "Cubemap Resolution" on the Captured Scene Sky Light component.

No, it would be pretty beyond the scope of the asset. There is the Lightning Flash Started event dispatcher on UDW, you could bind to that to trigger these additional effects from your own class.

The volumetric fog category has been there since V7, and is still there in V8, yes. Are you maybe in UE4? The last UDS release for UE4 was V6. This video covers the current UE5 release.

@@everettgunther929 I am using version 5.4.3. I mistakenly looked for the fog options in Ultra_Dynamic_Weather, but I now realize they are actually in Ultra_Dynamic_Sky. Sorry for the confusion.

If the asset isn't there, it would have to be an older release of UDS before it existed? I'd suggest removing UDS from the project and adding again from the launcher, using Remove Local Content before, to force the launcher to redownload.

If you've already run through the troubleshooting steps for that in the documentation, get in touch at the support email and I can try to help.

@@everettgunther929 I figured it out. It was in the node. I had to connect it to the 1 vector. Unlike before where it worked automatically. Thanks

There is an entry in the documentation on it, in the weather section.

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I'd say make sure there is weather that contributes to the ground fog extinction (fog, rain, dust, snow). Also, when testing volumetric fog, make sure your editor scalability is at least at High. The engine's default scalability settings disable volumetric fog on low and medium shadow quality.