Simple Day Night Cycle for 3D Open World Games

In this video we make a simple day and night cycle for 3D open world style games. Using shader graph, we blend two skyboxes together seamlessly. This is a beginner friendly tutorial so even if you haven't used shader graph or Unity, you can port this straight into your project!

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Chapters
0:00: Intro
0:25: Importing Day and Night Skyboxes
1:59: Making a Simple Blend Shader
4:40: Secret Society
5:03: Polishing Skybox Shader
6:57: Final Shader Properties
7:35: Final Demo
7:44: Outro

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[Kyle-cgul]

As someone just starting from 0 info i am loving your videos! Wanting to make a banjo kazoooie style collectathon game and your tutorials are great, quick, to the point and easy to understand- my favorite unity tutorials so far without question

[CaineGlover-eenq]

Haven't even watched it yet and I'm already happy!

[davidtourangeau]

So glad you're back making amazing tutorials! Thanks!

[vevedngeved]

thank you so much for your work!! you're an inspiration to me! respect from INDONESIA!

[Invectivellc]

DUDE, you are making the same game as me! What gives??? (I'm following all of your tutorials, thank you

[cotirtaedy]

Hello! Could you please show us how to interact with the environment? Like leaving a trail in grass behind you for a short duration, destroying trees etc. ? Thank you!

[apurbaacharjee]

Is there any way to stop looping the cycle, its constantly changing which is not realistic😪

[galberger]

This is greate!
How can i add noon time of the to this shader graph?
Iwant it to be day time than noon/afternoon time of day than night time.

[Arieltheonly]

Dont know if your still active but tried following your underwater tutorial. did everything you said but didnt make it blurry. and was wondering how to make it a different color under water, and change the fog only underwater. been watching other videos and trying for hours but not working

[ThatLoserTyler]

How can I control the brightness? My daytime skybox lights up like a nuke dropped when it's peak daytime.

[rogerlin]

is there any way that i can control whether i need to be day or night using a script? like a script to control the skybox shader

[peterjohnson]

Thanks for these tutorials. How do we make the environment go darker when it's night time ?

[Zangir]

The tutorial is awesome! But i got an minor issue, the skybox is amazing in the editor but when I deploy it to my android the skybox changes to cubes with nothing in it... is the shader graph not compatible with android devices?

[Arieltheonly]

Is there a way to add 3 cycles, like day afternoon and night

[zuzuappw]

Hey I have been having some troubles with unity i cant sign into unity at all please can you help?

[ondrejjandos]

How to make the sun/moon move on the sky?

[finalkill]

I have a problem with the shader! My negate function doesnt work. It is just black. Pls help!
Edit: I connected the boxes wront xd