Making a Night Sky in Blender

[@marcdraco2189]

Can't afford to take your course yet Martin, but this is something I really need to do! Looks amazing.

[@devanshutak25]

For getting the gradient for the glow of the moon, we can use object coordinates and select the moon object in the "Object" field in the texture coordinate node. That way the gradient will always start from the origin of the moon object.

[@brandonjrichard]

This was my solution as well. Awesome easy trick.

[@WW_Studios]

I was just going to say that lol!

[@DilophoMS]

@Captain Reason Switch from Texture to Point in the Mapping node.

[@pieterdebie4162]

That worked like a charm and will no doubt be useful in the future too. For people that are still confused about the shader setup: imgur.com/a/phqSJro

[@thekid317]

I think UV mapis easier, just look at it and project from view, if you already have a UV map then add a new one and assign each to it's corresponding node.

[@games528]

9:30 I'd recommend multiplying the moon emission strength with a math node rather than changing the bloom settings, as that will only make the moon have strong bloom around it (which is more realistic)

[@MartinKlekner]

Good tip, thanks :)

[@raoulette]

merci

[@abiyyupanggalih854]

it's useful to make a night scene 11:22 make it "object" on texture coordinate, if you want not to look stretchy recommendation from me: after done with all that it's better to render it as an HDRI tutorial to doing that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmWTi3WObs2LmKc

[@lukayz1363]

what a coincidence. i was literally about to search for a tutorial on this and you just happen to upload it... thank you

[@MartinKlekner]

Haha awesome!

[@incognito6751]

0:07 I see a one eyed cat in the sky lol

[@AR_-xi5xg]

KZbin gives me this video recommend after my pc explode (because minim ram) 😪 But thanks to make this video 😊 Now i know how to make sky

[@BurnEdOutOne]

If you have trouble adjusting the gradient texture coordinate nodes, or it doesn't seem to adjust at all / adjusts predictably, make sure it is set for "quadratic" and not "quadratic sphere". That's the rookie mistake I made! :P

[@demivideos8887]

Thank you, i was so confused

[@tobiassimon659]

no matter what option I take in the gradient texture node, the vector does not chance anything at all :(

[@jeffg4686]

Love it. How about a stars 'volumetric' that would be cool. Like if could move through it and have some light trails coming off the stars as moving past. Not sure if the motion blur feature in cycles works with volumetrics, but maybe.

[@ISEESPOOKS]

Where were you when I was building a Rocket ship to Mars? Fantastic tut ! very well thought out. Any thoughts on Anti-grav modulators to make my Ship look cool!

[@_eisi]

Love your Landscape course Martin, thank u for all this good content!

[@bill392]

Hmm, when my clouds moved, the moon remained in front of them. To put the moon behind the clouds, I duplicated the sky dome and scaled it down to .97, duplicated the sky material too, renamed to clouds and put the clouds nodes only on the inner dome, leaving the moon and the stars sky material on the outer one. The inside dome needed a mix-shader and transparent shader to allow the moon and stars from the outside dome to shine through. The moon glow works on the clouds very well. For EEVEE to use transparent shader, had to set clouds material to alpha-hashed. I don't know if it matters, but after I made the first dome, I made sure that the normals were all facing inward toward the camera view.

[@MartinKlekner]

Hi, yes, thats a drawback of my approach - your approach solves it well, thanks for sharing!

[@clausbohm9807]

Thank you for offering this course as well as keeping it updated. Short enough yet has all the most important detail to do the lessons.

[@Dingle.Donger]

Absolutely love this tutorial. I was just thinking about making night scenes.

[@khlorghaal]

you dont need to use transforms for keyframes, you can keyframe directly within materials

[@dreygen9357]

Why when i pluging my clouds nodes it's all going pink? What's the problem and how i can fix that

[@cgboost]

Could be a missing texture. ~Egon

[@Illasera]

16:42 bottom right, The only issue is that there are some gradation artifacts to be solved, the rest is good.

[@martinveloche1228]

I make my own night sky, thanks a lot!!! Great tutorials as always!!

[@integragemi7234]

epic thanks, i never gonna need to use fake images as planes for backgrounds again

[@LuminousLabs]

This is such a cool tutorial, I looked up how to do this and figured it would just be someone with an HDRI or something. Really great stuff!

[@LoudNoob]

Idk, NASA's starmap wrap is pretty darn good. But I do like making my own universe's.

[@thunderhawk506]

Help, when I add the "Mix Color" node to the gradient texture, the color appears strongly on the whole dome instead that it changes the color of the radiant texture. I followed every step exactly except that the mixrgb node is the mix color node now..

[@cgboost]

You need to change the Blending mode of the Mix Color node to Color (by default it is set to Mix)

[@keziagreste]

​@@cgboost After doing that, when I combine the stars with the colour, the color dissapears.. it's just grey and black

[@joacobellene8591]

Excelent Video! I'm new using blender and the way you explain things help me a lot!

[@brandonjacksoon]

Thank you for your tutorials! You have a truly talent to mentor and teaching people's! Top youtube content! Everything looks very realistic!

[@Kroh03]

I’m trying to create the starry field but I can’t see any of the noise, my entire scene appears black. What am I doing wrong??

[@thekid317]

the easiest solution for the moon lighting I UV map, just look at it and project from view, if you already have a UV map then add a new one and assign each to it's corresponding node.

[@Satoru_Haruto]

my settings for the gradient texture is x -0.5 y -0.6 z 0.4 in the step called positioning the glow

[@snyperwulffgaming9575]

So I absolutely plan to get your Master course. HOpefully you will actually see this as I do wanna know if this can be used to easily build a land area for a scene in an animation involving characters and what not? Edit: By "This" I meant the Master Course.

[@UrMamIsARide]

This is great! I haven't seen any of your tutorials until now but, I love it. The organisation of your nodes is something I never thought put much thought into and I'm definitely going to now (and the tutorial was brilliant too lol). Great work!

[@adl1719]

I'm very curious, when I import an image as plane, that has a transparent background, why does it still not end up transparent when imported into blender?

[@MartinKlekner]

Have you used the Alpha socket of the image and plugged it into the Alpha socket of the Principled BSDF shader in Shader Editor?

[@adl1719]

@@MartinKlekner yes I did, yet the only way I could get it to work was if I photoshopped an image to have a transparent background, no pngs I downloaded would work without doing that, strange

[@howlinnadeaux766]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! The Sky Texture alone adds so many variations to the lighting just by a few slides but with that and this shader combined you can create effects OUT OF THIS WORLD!! Youre a legend.

[@TUMENG-TSUNGF]

Great video! I followed the tutorial but ran into a little problem. When I set the color ramp at 4:38, my background is not completely dark. Instead it's a shade of dark grey. What might I have done wrong?

[@cgboost]

You may need to adjust the dark colour on the colour ramp. It's probably not set to black. It might also be that the world colour is not set to black. ~ Daniel

[@comicsands9719]

wow thank you so much man this is exactly what i was looking for

[@Glowbox3D]

Really nice tutorial, thank you. I feel like I'm in Skyrim when I watch your vids. ;)

[@hahatoon4606]

From Brazil here. Subscribed. Thanks for this toturial and more.

[@alakinamann2069]

Heya, great tutorial, though I was wondering what would happen if it was made in Cycles? I know you give that option for turning off the shadows in Cycles, but if you continued in cycles, would there be any other consequences? thanks so much

[@MartinKlekner]

I think apart from slower render times there is no big difference in Cycles, I use these skies in Cycles all the time 🙂

[@Anxious_Eli]

Couldn’t this map also just be mapped in the world shader as a sky texture?

[@TheHorreK2]

I tried this at Blender 3.0 and sadly nothing seems to be happening when using the noise node. Anyone knows why? Is there another feature that cancels some neccesarry stuff out? EDIT: Strange, i fixed it by double Tapping the "Use Nodes" under the Material section, i guess Blender bugged out on me? It wouldt work on me by completly redoing the Node set-up so.... at least it works now

[@lt.aldoraine6842]

im using 3.0 where is this?

[@realms_of_reality]

I had the same issue in 3.2.1. Tapping the material output node fixed it for me.

[@ZacharyWhite25]

I am most certainly going to recreate this sky for a baseball stadium project I’m working on in blender. I would also like to create from scratch a daytime sky like the night you created. Is there a video on that as well?

[@bobogus7559]

A method I used to create a Sun disk in the world material settings was to use a map range node. From max was 1 and from min was just short of 1 (I had it at about 0.99995). To min was 0, to max was 500. By changing the from min and to max values, you might be able to repurpose it as a low-intensity moon glow and adjust with additional nodes to get a better result (and it's perfectly circular, too). This was applied to the World material, not to an object (also keep in mind that this is an outer space scene).

[@arnoldst6936]

Hallo, ich hab ein Objekt was an manchen stellen Sehr viele Hörner hat. Wie kann man sowas gut remeshen? Bei nah aneinander gereiten Meshes bekomme ich nur probleme. Hello, I have an object that has a lot of horns in some places. How can I remesh it well? I only get problems with meshes that are close to each other.

[@cyntac8690]

Im stuck on the bloom, whenever i turn it on it affects the entire scene and not just the moon?

[@cgboost]

That is correct, the bloom effect is a global one (it affects the whole scene)

[@cyntac8690]

@@cgboost when you turn it on and play with the threshold it visually looks like there is more light coming from the moon in particular but when I do it, the scene as a whole just gets washed out with with a purple brightness. I am doing a thing where the stars are more purple than white and the gradient matches, could that be what’s causing it?

[@cgboost]

@@cyntac8690 Purple color just makes me guess that there might be some texture missing. Are you sure there is nothing like this in your scene ?

[@cyntac8690]

@@cgboost Well in my scene i wanted a purple-esk atmosphere so i changed the colors of the star noise texture to a purple one and for the ground glow its purple to black instead of blue to black, but thats all i have that different from yours. Its really breaking my brain lol im still a little new to blender so dont know what to do to troubleshoot this.

[@yahyabaskale8948]

[@Gettutorials123]

Thanks for the tutorial.

[@tomoyaogawa4485]

This is so beautiful! Thank you Martin!

[@Ditto-qn3pu]

It took me all night. But I did it. And it looks co pretty. I love it ♥♥☺

[@D3LB0Y]

are you able to make lightning ?

[@MartinKlekner]

Sure thing, just make a mesh in shape of lighting ( this addon might help developer.blender.org/T27189 ), add emission shader to it and animate a very strong light to light up when it appears.

[@cedricaguilar4501]

Looks nice but I see one problem, the moon will always be in front of the clouds which is not realistic.

[@twitchingantoine3832]

Is there a solve for this? I run into it too

[@fadhil4008]

I just don't understand why Blender just don't make gradient texture to be mapped easier. Playing around with scale, position and rotation is just ehhmm....

[@cgboost]

Yeah, agree on that.

[@nedstudios6490]

Andrew Kramer of Blender tuts. Loved it

[@ImperioAme]

Excellent video. Thank you!

[@jonatansvar8076]

I made the star distribution a little more random, it made it look a little more realistic

[@ElijahWLYT]

how?

[@jonatansvar8076]

@@ElijahWLYT I don't even remember lol

[@jonatansvar8076]

@@ElijahWLYT I think I mixed a bigger noise map with the stars to make them more clustered

[@nedstudios6490]

The Andrew Kramer of Blender tutorials. Loved it

[@Gemesil]

Wow what the heck I looked for a video on how to do this yesterday

[@fidalium3d845]

Now I can make my own night skies 😊. Thanks for the video

[@mcan-piano4718]

You are greatttttttttttttttt. First time I watched ur channel

[@gordonbrinkmann]

Good tutorial! 👍 I just wonder why people almost always use the Color output of the Noise Texture when they need greyscale noise... there is a Fac output for that and in the newer versions of Blender they already put it above the Color socket because it's more useful for most cases... Oh, and I prefer the Voronoi texture for stars but that's just me 😄

[@cgboost]

I guess habit from the previous versions ;-) ~Egon

[@gordonbrinkmann]

@@cgboost Well, don't worry, I think you're in good company 😄

[@sims4u422]

Thank you.

[@kaameplays9784]

I am in love

[@slip-shape994]

my stars generating on the outer layer of the sky dom not on the under layer

[@umanggajjar1773]

Does this work for cycles as well?

[@yesr424]

you say "if like us, you will construct the sky for evee" what dose this means i should start using evee. (dose this means its better with evee?). 2:13

[@MartinKlekner]

It's faster to preview, but otherwise the same 🙂

[@melindamassey14]

When is any part of Blender user friendly.

[@ElijahWLYT]

Anyone having a problem getting their moon to glow?

[@PhoenixPalmer88]

Fantastic tutorial man, really helpful! I followed along in Cycles since my overall project looks a bit better there, and the result is almost identical. Only holdup I'm having on it is trying to emulate the Eevee bloom, any pointers?

[@cgboost]

You can add the bloom in post-production with glare node inside the compositor. ~ Masha

[@begalooloo]

is the bird animation also show in the course

[@michapayska4724]

better to make couds on other smaller spere so they can cover the moon

[@Blacktalonarts]

I find all this very beautiful and looks to be a pretty amazing course. But I have a question. Is this more of a follow me course or do you actually explain why you are doing the things the way you are? I find many tutorials paid and free are simply "follow/copy my actions" and not so much why. Just curious before I purchase. :)

[@darrennew8211]

I want to know too. I've bought courses that are "30 hours" that are the same basic modeling thing over and over where I would have expected stuff like procedural textures and collection instancing rather than just "let's do the same thing repeatedly on different shapes".

[@nbakerify]

wow! not sure i'd call the node setup simple, but this is a great video. thanks!

[@karaelzexceed666]

love the tutorial, super easy to follow even for a beginner :D also banging my head on my desk cause image to plane add-on is apparently a thing that exists and I had a bunch of hyperrealistic drawings just gathering dust

[@cgboost]

Well now you know how to use them! 💪 Great to know that you liked the tutorial :) ~ Masha

[@zenix8307]

can i export this and put the sky into unreal engine 5

[@rafaszopa2955]

I personally love to combine new Sky Texture with the noise texture =)

[@내금니돌려주세요]

ummm BUT where the stars....in the end scene

[@raviii9350]

How do you copy this to other projects without loosing textures on it, coz when i export it as objects the sky texture and moon vanishes

[@MartinKlekner]

Appending should work ok... Make sure that you append all the objects the sky is comprised of. If your textures turn pink, you can go to File - External Files - Find Missing Files and navigate to folders where your missing textures are.

[@No1Idle]

Ok i know this is 2 years ago but i have a problem when adding the moon: when i add image as a plane everything works fine until i try to scale the moon to get it bigger (in the tutorial i see it is scaled about 100 times) then i get only a square or something similar. Can anyone help me?

[@treyxyz]

Have you tried adding vertical & horizontal loop cuts? it'll deform better.

[@1c3c0ldw4t3r]

im having an issue in blender 4.0, when i add the mix shader coming from the gradient shader it turns the whole dome blue, i can't get it to adjust only the bottom part of the gradient

[@cgboost]

Hi, hard to tell without seeing the file, can you please post it inside our community community.cgboost.com/home ~ Masha

[@dabonker1065]

in having issues putting the moon onto the dome

[@Adhithya2003]

Hi martin 😊😊

[@MartinKlekner]

Hiii :)

[@alessiochemeri2059]

Wish to thank you so much, your tutorial really help me in a "home Project", may i put the link of your tutorial on my proj. Refs.?

[@cgboost]

Sure! Thanks for appreciation! :)

[@leonelsantos6517]

very good I liked it thank you.

[@moensmichiel8537]

How to make it work with cycles?

[@mxrsh0]

6:30 -Having trouble balancing the color how you did it, mine comes from underneath but kinda like overwhelms my object :/ I think i did something wrong.

[@ArtisticRyad]

holy shit thats much needed

[@lt.aldoraine6842]

why does my sphere look white?

[@chrissem5200]

Hi Why is half of my texture grey and noisy when baked. Im baking combined and colored texture. Should I bake differently if I bake a clored texture?

[@bill392]

I added a "track to" constraint to my moon so that it always faces the camera so it always appears as a proper circle.

[@MartinKlekner]

Good tip, thanks!

[@Omidd2831]

hi I have a question about (the set parent to)when I select "the set parent to" for set on the object (keep transform) I should be the Oon the function of SkyDome, right, I saw according to the video but for me is opposite of it, I mean SkyDome is the function of the moon now, how should I fix that bug? or does it not matter?

[@TsuriaDragon]

I'm having an issue with the stars they seem a lot dimming looking and aren't as bright I wonder what I did wrong? I follow the steps you showed and its done but in the final shot the stars you can't really notice at all.

[@timwallace6486]

Thank you for this great tutorial. I learned so much! I am currently working on the Cubic World tutorial and decided to add a moon to the scene. One comment- Maybe I am doing something wrong but the plane as image works great until you animate the camera. Then as you move the camera to the sides the moon's geometry distort and forms an ellipse rather than a circular shape. I substituted a sphere ( I know it's a cubic world) with an image texture for the plane and it doesn't distort as the camera moves to the sides.

[@cgboost]

You can work with the plane too, but then you would need to constrain its rotation to the camera. ~Egon

[@kolega4ever]

Well, about node wrangler, many addons are not active by default despite "virtually everyone" using them since some addons, even built-in ones, tend to not co-operate well with each other, even causing crashes.

[@GCAF_]

thank you! any way to make the moon behind the clouds? so when you animate the clouds the moon "hide" behind them?

[@pieterdebie4162]

I think you could duplicate the SkyDome, make it a bit smaller and texture the clouds on that with a transparent material.

[@ellal6915]

Fantastic I love your 3D environment course.

[@humn_error]

Sorry for the newbie question but how do you snap scale or get all axis to change at the same time when you input values in dimensions in the n panel? It's driving me crazy! Thanks so much for your amazing content

[@darrennew8211]

Click into the first box, and while holding the button, drag over the other values. Then you can edit them all at once, or keep holding and move the mouse left and right. Check out the 2.8 fundamentals video on the official Blender Foundation channel for how the UI works.

[@humn_error]

@@darrennew8211 thanks so much for this! I had seen the fundamentals videos when I first started in Blender but had completely forgotten about this...

[@antonzax36]

Martin Bro, thanks!

[@call_me_blue]

my cntrl T just stopped working all together, any tips?

[@stellaachenbach]

Thank you Martin

[@DarkSwordsman]

I saw people using hotkeys like Shift + T but they never explained that I needed Node Wrangler to use it, so I was always stumped. Thanks for explaining that! Definitely silly that it is not enabled by default.

[@CoolThangz]

definitely not a beginner video, i cant follow half the thigs you are doing

[@cgboost]

Hi, sorry that you had difficulties to follow this video. Some of our videos, especially the ones about environments are not for beginners but more for intermediate users. ~ Masha

[@ivankrecker9210]

Nice! Thanks 👍

[@austin647392]

Is this purely for eevee or can you use this with cycles as well?

[@MartinKlekner]

Both cycles and eevee :-)