The latest release (7.11) of the SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud and Weather SDK now includes pre-built binaries, project files, and solution files for the new Visual Studio 2026! We’ve developed and tested it against the free Community Edition. You’ll find...
Frank Kane
Frank Kane is the founder and CEO of Sundog Software, LLC, and previously worked at IMDb, Amazon, Sierra Online, Looking Glass Studios, and SDS Int'l.
Modern simulations, especially in the military training space, make heavy use of simulated sensors. Often, these sensors operate at high magnification levels. Zooming into a distant part of the scene presents some unique challenges in computer graphics. In Triton’s case,...
We are proud to announce support for the Arm64 architecture on Windows with the Triton Ocean SDK! This release allows you to take advantage of the ARM RISC architecture for your simulation and training applications, without sacrificing the realistic ocean...
We are proud to announce support for the Arm64 architecture on Windows with the SilverLining 3D Cloud, Sky, and Weather SDK! This release allows you to take advantage of the ARM RISC architecture for your simulation and training applications, without...
A common problem users of the Triton Ocean SDK encounter is blending the ocean with terrain at the coastline. The scenes in many simulators are expansive, stretching out for hundreds of miles from the viewpoint – and this can push...
I just realized it’s been awhile since we posted anything on this blog – but that’s because we’ve been busy, you know, building things! The SilverLining 3D Cloud, Sky, and Weather SDK is now up to version 7.007, and most...
We get a lot of questions about extending SilverLining’s shaders to incorporate custom lighting or sensor effects, so here’s some more depth on how that works. Usually we point people at our earlier article on the subject, and I’d still...
We are proud to announce the launch of version 7.0 of the SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK, featuring the promotion of SilverLining’s Vulkan support to production status! Vulkan is the successor to OpenGL, offering better performance for your...
Version 7 of the SilverLining 3D Cloud, Sky, and Weather SDK now includes an integration sample with the Rocky engine from Pelican Mapping! Pelican Mapping is the creator of the popular osgEarth open source package; you can think of Rocky...
Version 6.38 of the SilverLining Sky, 3D Clouds, and Weather SDK now includes a beta release of Vulkan support, in addition to OpenGL and Direct3D! Vulkan is the lower-level, higher-performing successor to OpenGL that is gaining traction in the simulation...