When I was making a custom sky sphere blueprint, I created a mask to simulate clouds and linked the sun to the directional light actor, and here goes the problem. When the sun is positioned behind the clouds, I wanted the sun to cast shadow of the clouds, or simply dim the sun light intensity based…

Hi - You could achieve what you are looking for in Blueprint. It would require taking the panning clouds texture setup and moving it into a Material Function which can then be called from the Sky Sphere’s base material and the same function could be referenced in a light function that is applied …

Shadow, sky sphere and lighting actor.

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anonymous_user_1ffa804e (anonymous_user_1ffa804e) June 3, 2014, 12:42am 7

Thank you for point it out. There gotta be a way somewhere, I’ll keep trying.