RenderSettings.Skybox.Lerp not cooperating

Unity Engine
1

Hello,

I’m having some issues with a day night cycle. I have a snippet below that shows what I’m trying to do with the skybox. I removed the rest of the time and lighting code bits and have tested with the bare minimum below and it won’t work after the initial change.

functionUpdate()
{

if (dayTime == true)
{
RenderSettings.skybox.Lerp (skyboxNight, skyboxDay, .01);
}

if (nightTime == true)
{
RenderSettings.skybox.Lerp (skyboxDay, skyboxNight, .01);
}

2

I think you need to lerp the Skybox.material.color from white to black or something.
Unity - Scripting API: Material.color,
or possibly use a shader. Do a search for Unity day/night cycle and see what comes up.

3

I think a good start would be to ditch the bools and instead do a time of day float.

Then you would want to transition the skybox based on that value.

That, or you could do a 3d skybox with a second camera.

At any rate, this is a little above my level. Sorry.

4

figured out I did need a shader to make it work.

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