Thanks to X-Plane flight simmer redpiper1 for putting together this jaw-dropping video of our cloud technology in action! This video features our plugin for X-Plane called SkyMaxx Pro, which uses our SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK to inject...
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.
We’re proud to announce the launch of Real Weather Connector, and add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator! Real Weather Connector (RWC) works with our SkyMaxx Pro add-on to position cloud formations exactly as they appear in real life. Real Weather...
We’re proud to announce the latest revision of our popular add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator, SkyMaxx Pro 3.1! You can read the official announcement at X-Pilot.com. A major innovation in this release is the illumination of clouds from your...
Believe it or not, it’s been 10 years since the SilverLining Sky, Cloud, and Weather SDK was first offered to the public! What started as my personal hobby project has since turned into the de-facto real-time sky and weather library...
Many applications are sensitive to OpenGL pipeline stalls; where a “stop the world” call happens that requires the driver to synchronize the GPU and CPU. Because SilverLining and Triton are usually drawn near the end of your frame when everything...
Our friends at ComPro have announced the release of OpenIG 2.0.0, which now includes plugin support for our SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK and our Triton Ocean SDK! OpenIG is an open-source, cross-platform scene generator built on top...
A little-known but incredibly useful feature in the Triton Ocean SDK is volumetric decals – this lets you place 2D textures, with some limited animation capabilities, on the water surface. While decals are usually nothing special, they are when applied...
Integrating reflections of your scene on the water is the biggest thing you can do to create realistic water with the Triton Ocean SDK. But, producing the texture map Triton needs for planar reflections can be a little tricky. Here...
A common source of confusion is how to use SilverLining and Triton in applications that render to multiple windows or viewports. Both SilverLining and Triton can be configured to work in such environments, but there are a few tricks you...
Today I launched my third, most ambitious course on Udemy: Data Science and Machine Learning with Python – Hands On! If you’d like to learn to apply your programming or scripting skills to the very lucrative data science field, you...