• Gregory D. Moore

  10 days ago

  Getting great results with this addon. Strong update support - keeps getting better and better!

• Navid

  10 days ago

  Such a level of dedication to improve this amazing addon. The team is truly talented and well organised. Highly recommended.

• Mark Goodrich

  11 days ago

  Terrible tech support

• Munyaradzi Feremenga

  about 2 months ago

  This is so far my favourite sky addon for blender. I purchased it years ago and I am always happy with the updates. I reported an issue which I thought will take months to be resolved. The issue was fixed within a week. Big-up to the hard working team. I personally disagree with most negative reviews I have read. Trust me, this is a good addon!!!

• sameer uddin

  7 months ago

  Fabulous addon , It works as expected . I love the overall look and feel of the skies , the presets are nice too. I love PSA but somehow i am liking the feel of the PSP night skies as the red shift in stars doesn't make the like low noise specs , now i may be doing something wrong in the other addon so it's not on the product. However i love this addon and would love see more presets for us lesser mortals ! :)
  as far as the older lower ratings go,
  i used to run it on a RTX 980 too , yes it used to go draggin on it but then everything else used to . I upgraded the GPU and even on a really heavy scene it seems to be running just alright , If you have a potato pc try to bring down the texture render setting in the Render>viewport>Textures to a lower value and it seems to ease off the processing and better viewport navigation .
  Regardless This is a great tool to have in your kit. The dev has been updating the addon as well , what else can one expect ! :)

• JJ

  8 months ago

  Would be great to have an EEVEE update for Blender 4.2 LTS. The environment goes to black so it's not really worth it to use the addon for now. It's otherwise great with nice UI and options and I'll happily update my rating if the addon improves.

• kim

  9 months ago

  Since the EEVEE engine has been completely changed since Blender 4.2 was updated, volumetric fog and clouds do not work, so I cannot solve the black sky. If I downgrade to the previous 4.1 version, it works. However, the 6.0.84 version cannot be used except for the cycle engine. Please solve this.

• Pac0master

  over 1 year ago

  Of all the addons I got over the years I think this might be the best one for lighting environment.
  It has proper volumetric fog and clouds.
  Though, as a result it is heavier to render, but I think it's worth it.

• Nirupam Saren

  over 1 year ago

  great boost in work

• PixelPunk

  over 1 year ago

  The low star reviews had me concerned so before I purchased I asked the creator about my primary concern, the bugs that more than a few reviews mention. He assured me the bugs have been fixed with the new Pure Sky Pro 6.0. Neither the market or creator allow a refund if not happy with the addon, so it was a gamble. But I liked that PSP has a more complete features set that no other sky addon (that I am aware of) has, and the creator's replies gave an okay enough impression, so I purchased it (June 2023).

  I learned the basics swiftly, and have had no difficulty learning more advanced features even though the documentation has yet to be updated to include all the new content that was added with PSP 6.0. I have not found any of these supposed bugs. Did anyone report these bugs to the creator to verify they really are bugs, and give the creator a chance to fix them? Besides the reviewer who did report a bug with a feature that was then removed as explained by the creator. I did find a few main settings that are listed in both the N panel and materials menu will only work with changes made with one or the other, not both, but if this is a bug it is not an issue in my opinion.

  As many have said the volumetric features take time to render, however I have not seen anyone mention that this is cumulative for each separate feature. Add a few and the render time increases by approximately that many times. If I am not mistaken this is how it is with all volumetric addons, not just PSP, though some render faster than others. But are there compromises for faster rendering? Maybe PSP could be optimized for faster rendering, but I have not found it to be an issue like some reviewers did (was anyone strictly working in rendered mode with many volumetrics running? CPU rendering? Using a GPU that might have driver issues with Blender or some addons?). All I can say is in my opinion PSP is well made and the render time while sometimes slow is worth it (as I will explain).

  With PSP volumetrics I find it fascinating to see the change when the denoise cleans the render. In the viewport they turn from noisy smudges to nicely defined obvious clouds, aurora or fog (this is with just 10 samples). I find this helps me be more efficient because I can see a sky that resembles a good painting instead of smudges and noise dots everywhere, and I can make adjustments right in the viewport without having to switch views. Then when rendered they look realistic enough for me. If the default clouds and aurora are not to your preference, there are many settings to adjust that can probably make it what you want.

  An important note I want to mention is that PSP has not crashed once. Not even with heavy volumetrics running (all three altitudes of clouds, aurora and fog) and a detailed landscape (with grass and plants), whether working in the viewport (any view mode) or rendering with or without animation. For anyone wondering, this is all with Linux Mint 21.2, Blender 3.6, cycles (GPU rendering), AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU and RTX 3060 12GB GPU (rendering with Optix). With this computer and nothing except PSP in the scene (no objects or other addons), PSP volumetrics each render at approximately 1 second per sample in the viewport with the camera looking directly at the horizon, and even faster when rendered. The denoise takes approximately 2x the time of a sample.

  Along with PSP I splurged to try one other popular sky addon (which I am not naming as I do not like to trash, promote or recommend competitors) because of what the product page and many recent reviews say, which nagged me that I might have chosen the wrong addon. That other addon was difficult for me to learn just the basics, did not look as nice in my opinion (particularly in viewport rendered mode), was not that much faster to render, had fewer features and settings (possibly some are more realistic but some were less realistic), and crashed Blender both while working in the viewport and test rendering with a simpler landscape or a few volumetrics. I followed instructions and advice, but could not adjust to that addon or fix the issues. Many people are obviously happy with that addon, and it will improve, but it is not for me.

  To specify, I am currently no expert and my expectations and opinion are in the budget minded good enough for now league. No sky addon is currently best for everything, and while this competitor is better for this and that competitor is better for that, to have a complete set of sky and separate sky features addons (see next sentence) to have all the pros and a counter for every con, would need the budget to purchase all those addons. This is why although PSP might not be the most realistic or fastest, I currently consider it the best value (because it includes a set of sky features that all of the competitors need one or more purchased separately to equal, which may or may not work without issues) and a good start (though a gamble, but read the last paragraph).

  Because for me PSP has been easy to use, reliable, and exactly as described and shown on the product page, I have not had need or interest in trying any other sky or sky feature addon. I considered purchasing the #1 (in sales) sky addon of the market instead for the realistic accuracy, but it is sun, sky and not much else, and has some issues, so it was not a good choice for me. The creators of that addon are working on extensive fixes, improvements and new features, so when it is updated I will reconsider it as an option for anything it is better for than PSP.

  I usually do not write detailed reviews like this, but the recent low star reviews make me worry that the creator will lose interest in supporting PSP, and that those reviews could lead to frustrating wrong choices for others as they did for me. 3DVision, I will be sending you a message with suggestions for improvements and new features, but one I want to mention here is to add a refund if not happy policy, which would help you, current customers, and future customers. And I will conclude this review with a thanks to you and any team you have for supporting and improving Pure Sky Pro.

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  3DVision

  over 1 year ago

  Hello, thank you for your encouragement.

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