I’d like to add a directional light in a scene with the SkyShader. I can get the “sun” position, but I have no clues how to get the sun color to match with the light. Is it possible ? Thank you.

/cc [Omiod] SkyShader example, get light color three.js, directional-light asked by Omiod on 10:36AM - 02 Aug 20 UTC

You might actually want two light sources. But more on that in a second. The direct lighting from any distant object will be the original light intensity multiplied by the extinction coefficient. As white light from the sun goes through the atmosphere, some blue light is scattered out of the direct …

Thank you for this in-depth explanation, I actually tried to extract the code from the shader, but I could not get it to work. Never worked with shaders before… I’ll get back to this soon, thank you!

Time to dig deeper then! Any console errors? (I’m just yanking these guts out of my code, so I might have overlooked something)

i’m struggling to access the sun position and apply it to the directional light, would you be able to offer guidance? I was also hoping to access the color but i am facing one problem at a time

SkyShader example, get light color

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