Adding a Sky Atmosphere system

The Sky Atmosphere system is a physically-based sky and atmosphere-rendering technique inside of UE5.

With this system, you can create realistic Earth-like or alien-like atmospheres with adjustable time-of-day settings. This allows you to create many different lighting scenarios, such as midday, sunset, or sunrise. One of the unique features of the Sky Atmosphere system is that it approximates the scattering of light through the atmosphere to simulate atmospheric density.

You can read more about the Sky Atmosphere system here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/sky-atmosphere-component-in-unreal-engine/.

Let's add a Sky Atmosphere system to your scene:

1. In the toolbar, click on the Create icon. Then, navigate to Visual Effects | Sky Atmosphere. Click on Sky Atmosphere to add it to your scene, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.6 – Adding a Sky Atmosphere to your scene

2. Take...