Sun Position
Show the position of the Sun with objects or an environment
Maintained by pioverfour
Last updated: March 27, 2026
What It Helps You Do
- This is the mode by default. After selecting the time and place, you can set up a sun light, a sky texture, and a collection to serve as visualization. They will be positioned or animated by choosing a date, time and place on Earth.
How To Install It In Blender
- Install it from Blender Extensions inside Blender when available.
- If you need the ZIP directly, use the official download from the Blender Extensions page and Blender’s Install from Disk flow.
How To Use It In Blender
- Official docs mention: Usage.
Using It On A Render Farm
Simple guidance for rendering node setup, and safer submissions.
Conservative default: assume workers also need this add-on installed unless you have verified that its output is fully baked or converted into native Blender data.
Warnings
- Local path or asset-library signals were detected. Paths that work on the artist machine can still fail on remote workers.
- Bake or cache signals were detected. Generated outputs may need to be prepared before upload.
Safest Workflow
- Bake caches or precompute outputs before sending a long render job when the add-on depends on generated intermediate data.
- Check whether the add-on launches its own render operators locally and avoid assuming that workflow maps cleanly to farm orchestration.
- Open the scene in desktop Blender, run any interactive setup steps, save the file, then validate a small background render before scaling up.
Packing Checklist
- Assume every worker needs the same add-on version installed unless you have verified that the scene renders correctly after baking or exporting the result to native Blender data.
- Upload any external textures, presets, asset libraries, exports, or helper files referenced by the add-on workflow.
- Include baked caches or generated outputs if the add-on workflow writes them outside the main .blend file.
- Run a small local background render or one short farm test before full submission.
Common Issues
- The scene opens on the farm but renders incorrectly because local assets or helper files were never uploaded.
- A farm render differs from the local scene because a cache or baked output was never uploaded.
More Context
The add-on is currently available in English, French, and simplified Chinese. If you’d like to help translate it to your language, please open an issue.
This add-on was originally written by Michael Martin with contributions by Aaron Carlisle, Brendon Murphy, Campbell Barton, Eduardo Schilling, Julian Eisel, n-Burn, and Stephen Leger. It uses the geo.py module by Maximilian Högner.
It is currently maintained by Damien Picard.
Quick Facts
- Version
- 4.4.0
- Compatibility
- Blender 4.2.0 and newer
- Downloads
- 129126
- Published
- Tuesday 7th, May 2024 - 23:31
- Licenses
- SPDX:GPL-3.0-or-later