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• monad_studio

  3 months ago

  I’m still testing the different features, but so far, I’m very satisfied with it. As mentioned in one of the reviews below, there are a few areas that could be improved, but I’m sure they will get better through future updates and patches.

  I hope the development continues steadily. Thank you for creating such a great add-on!

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  Physical Addons

  1 day ago

  Hey Monad,
  You mention a few areas that could be improved, could you name them on Discord or at [email protected]? Since your review we shipped 3.0.7, 3.0.8 and 3.0.9: a new sky rendering engine, atmospheric refraction, Earth textures out of the box. After that we have been quiet for weeks, and now the real cloud system is back on the bench. We’ll get the clouds right. Thank you for the kind words and enjoy the ride. :)
  Karlis
• Carlos Barreto

  3 months ago

  What can I say? I dont know how it was possible to make such impressive work. the moment I opened the addon (happened a few minutes ago) I could not believe what I had in front of me.

  It takes a bit to compile or bake? Yes. Is that too much, I think it is not. But the power of the realtime controls!!!!!! My jaw dropped on the floor.

  I knew it was going to be good, I didnt think it would be 10 times better than what I thought.

  And it might have bugs (I didnt find any yet) but I'm sure they'll be fixed.
  I'm super glad to update it 🙌

  Please keep up the amazing work 💪

• Micah Ganske

  3 months ago

  Yes, it was a rough launch, but the devs are amazingly responsive and it's now the only sky addon I'll use. It's super performant for the quality you get. It's INCREDIBLE and the sky looks just as good whether you're in Eevee or Cycles. But it's not just a sky, it really really is a full planetary atmosphere. You can zoom from the ground out into space through volumetric clouds and it's all real-time! It's some serious black magic coding.

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  Physical Addons

  3 months ago

  Hi Micah,
  I love your quote about black magic coding :D. Most of the days we start with bugs and end with bugs, but reviews like these remind us why we made it.

  Karlis
• Miltos P.

  3 months ago

  I am trying this on beta 2.7.4 and Blender 5.2. I understand it had a rough first week but the addon is now working and can already do amazing things. There is no doubt this will soon be the ultimate procedural world shader.

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  Physical Addons

  3 months ago

  Hey Miltos,
  Thank you for believing in us. We work very hard to make this the ultimate procedural world shader.

  Karlis
• Steve J

  3 months ago

  Even though this is still in a rough beta form, I'm giving it five stars, because 1) I have confidence the devs will fix all the bugs and make it run well (I'm helping via Discord), and 2) the results, even at this stage, are simply phenomenal. The cloud system, which runs practically in real-time, is nothing short of a miracle. I used to use Physical Starlight and Atmosphere all the time (PSA2's precursor), but this is on another level. Ignore the three star rating – it's wrong. This is an incredible piece of tech, and you should buy it right now (especially with the discount!) to support this amazing dev team.

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  Physical Addons

  3 months ago

  Hi Steve,
  Jesus. This is one heck of a review :D. I love that you see the tech behind it and understand the magic it does, even with the product's early hiccups. We won’t let you down, Steve.

  Karlis
• Sahba Setareh

  3 months ago

  This addon is absolutely incredible!! And the developers are very responsive, they are a great team. I also love that you can navigate through the clouds in the 3D viewport, everything about this just feels so real and dynamic 10/10

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  Physical Addons

  3 months ago

  Hey Sahba,
  Thank you for the kind words. We really try to make it not only look great, but also to have great experience playing around with it. Enjoy the ride in clouds :) with us. It will only get better.

  Karlis
• Troy McClellan

  3 months ago

  I've been in the planetarium business for over 30 years and have seen it transition from the optical-mechanical star projectors to the digital full dome projection systems. Digital stars have always been a challenge and outside of a Digistar system (which is beyond the reach of most), finally, stars that actually look the night sky!

  I addition, I have used Terragen 4.5 for some daytime sky generation and the quality and color of the sky is right up there with it.

  I realize this is still in the beta stage, but from what I see, it will be a game changer for the way I produce content for planetarium and dome theaters. Really nice work! I can't wait to see this transform.

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  Physical Addons

  3 months ago

  Hey Troy,
  Thank you for putting it out here <3. Our dream definitely is to make it a truly scientific tool.

  Karlis
• floke

  3 months ago

  A very powerful and promising add-on, but being in beta, it's still a bit laggy. Sometimes viewport rendering gets stuck in an infinite refresh loop, as if I'm constantly moving the camera.

  The biggest downside, however, is that it can't work across multiple scenes within a single .blend file. When you try to recreate the atmosphere in another scene, it seems unable to connect to the new empties with the .001 suffix that it generated itself. If you move or link the collection with empties from the first scene, it only partially works because the UI fails to display any of the atmosphere settings.

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  Physical Addons

  3 months ago

  Hi Floke,
  Yeah, we have a problem with the scenes. It’s a known issue and has been there since PSA. We know what’s the problem, but we have to figure out the solution. It is definitely in our backlog.

  Can you please elaborate on the infinite refresh loop issue? It would be helpful if you could share this on our Discord chat or email us on [email protected]

  Powerful and promising - exactly what we think. Thank you!
• Jon Dent

  3 months ago

  It's easy to see the potential of this addon, and it's an impressive piece of tech, but in it's current state it has one major issue that prevents me from using it in production: with Cycles, any reflective materials on objects are covered in bright fireflies whenever they are directly in the sun. This is with all caustic settings turned off. Nothing seems to get rid of them short of turning the sun off in the addon. I've never seen this happen with HDRIs or Blenders built-in multiscattering sky texture (with the sun disc on), so it's almost certainly something with how the sky is being processed and presented to Cycles. Hopefully they can fix this whenever they end up releasing a new version.

• Somerled McDonald

  3 months ago

  Definitely powerful, tons of settings, but basically too laggy to be useful on my old GTX 1660Ti and my Intel Core i7 10570H 2.60gHz. Gets caught in an "updating lights" refresh loop, clouds don't show up, then they suddenly do, or if I uncheck clouds, the clouds remain, until they don't, and if I check clouds again, they don't show up. Any setting change just takes too long to show results, even in potato mode in an empty scene. Old PSA worked much faster on my system. Maybe you guys could make a simplified streamlined version without a million different settings to make workflow a bit easier.

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