Lighting

Sun Position

Show the position of the Sun with objects or an environment

Maintained by pioverfour

Last updated: March 27, 2026

Sun Position preview

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.

Background Rendering: review
Worker Install: review
External Files: review
Conservative install assumption

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

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