Physical Starlight And Atmosphere

by Physical Addons in Surfacing


Item Rating

This item has an average rating of 5 from 130 ratings by the community.

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  • Varun K Gupta
    almost 2 years ago

    Always wanted a more controlled approach for my world than what HDRIs offer and this was the answer all along! I have used this for many projects and it has never let me down :>

  • Julien comman
    almost 2 years ago

    I had rough times with this add, I see the potential, but I find it quite hard to to play with it, maybe I need more time.
    Overall it wont match the quality of a real hdri, the clouds are very poor even though it s cool to have them, they dont look real at all.
    I also find the presets very poor, and not very helpful.
    I also had trouble when I was switching to hdri, psa leaves things even tho you erase it.
    I will it more time and chance, and update my comment, but for now i am disappointed.

  • freshpepsi
    about 2 years ago

    Insanely good addon, super quick support from the team over on their Discord

  • Marcos Fernandez
    about 2 years ago

    It worked well until the last versions. Sometimes it simply doesn´t work. I wish to know why, but after spending hours triyin even to know under which circunstances it happen, I can only say this: At some point the add doesn´t repond to the changes you made in the interface. And there is also a problem with the Alpha tree add on. I can say that once I add an alpha tree element, PSA stop responding. This is the most recent problem but before this there was another problem with alpha trees: The PSA fog material doesn´t work properly, because the fog can be seen in the transparent areas of the alpha tree planes, which is not good and create a weird effect. (alpha tree uses images with alha channel to recreate trees)

  • David
    about 2 years ago

    The add-on looks nice but it causes a lot of bugs with world setting, when it's not the world going black after chaging or re-activating the add-on or replacing it with an HDRI, it's the settings not reacting to changes or the clouds not showing up...

    Also for an add-on this pricey the updates come very slow and never fixed the issues mentioned above, you don't get a moon light setting and/or texture to render night scenes either.

    I would recommend this add-on if you find it on sale, but for the full price I think it has too many issues and less features than it should.

    • Physical Addons

      about 2 years ago

      Thank you for your feedback, David!
      Due to multiple circumstances fixing the material fog issue (that causes broken/black materials) got delayed, but we are working to release it this week. Regarding settings that are not updating and clouds that are not showing up - could you please send steps to reproduce these issues on our Discord #help section (https://discord.gg/wvzPVzj9Vr) and I will get back to you ASAP. About star textures - feel free to ping us on Discord and we'll point you to the NASA official textures.

  • Hung Nguy
    about 2 years ago

    Great addon

  • Paweł
    about 2 years ago

    I have been working on a project for some time and from the very beginning I have had a problem with proper stage lighting and color reproduction. I bought a PSA in 3 minutes, ultimately just to test the possibilities, I set the sliders at my discretion and suddenly it turned out that I solved the problem in 150% because the final render looks much more realistic, which I did not expect. A simple thing, I recommend it very much, because it gives great results, does not burden so much, and the time saved is priceless.

  • Zach Lambert
    over 2 years ago

    I agree with Hanterdro. This addon is fantastic! The clouds system just needs to be flexed out some more.

  • Lasse Bauer
    over 2 years ago

    I had seen the previews, trailers and examples of how cool PSA was, so when I chose to purchase it I got very disappointed when PSA seemingly caused issues with Blender, didn´t preview in Cycles and had all sorts of issues.
    I was ready to leave a 1-star review and move on to a better solution, but decided to reach out to the PSA support on Discord. I honestly expected to wait a few days to get a response, but I must admit that all of my preconceived notions were brought to shame.
    Not only did they respond almost instantly, but I also found out that most of the issues stemmed from an unrelated, corrupt Blender file and some mysterious issues with the Blender prefs. Now, PSA works as I hoped and while I still have a lot of experimenting to do to get the results I am going for, there is no doubt that this addon is a game-changer in terms of ease-of-use, flexibility and options.

  • Hanterdro
    over 2 years ago

    This is in my opinion the best sky addon so far.
    But why only 4 stars?

    - The clouds looks pretty underwelming (I would recommend using VDBs clouds)
    - The development of this addon feels super slow (in comparsion to other Blender addons)

    However, I still highly recommend this addon. Works for me better than any other sky addon which is currently availibe.

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Sales 12200+
Customer Ratings 130
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Published about 5 years ago
Blender Version 2.8, 2.81, 2.82, 2.83, 2.9, 2.91, 2.92, 2.93, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0
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License GPL
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