Physical Starlight and Atmosphere - Sky vs Alpha Trees - render massive forests, fast

Two of the best-selling add-ons for scattering & environments, side by side. Numbers are from their public Superhive pages, checked 2026-11-13.

	Physical Starlight and Atmosphere - Sky	Alpha Trees - render massive forests, fast

What it is	"Physical Starlight and Atmosphere" is a full outdoors lighting simulator that takes inspiration of 'sandbox' game worlds and editors, bringing visual consistency between every object in the scene.	Alpha Trees lets you create flat tree cards, fast, which can render many times faster than normal 3D tree models and use far less memory. The addon also lets you import, modify and scatter these trees with ease.
By	Physical Addons	Strike Digital
Price	from $70	from $45
Coupon	–	–
Sales	17100+	3400+
Rating	4 / 5 (153 ratings)	4 / 5 (29 ratings)
Blender	2.81 – 5.2	4.2 – 5.2
Works with 5.2	Yes	Yes
On Superhive since	about 7 years ago	almost 6 years ago
License	Options	GPL
	See it on Superhive Full page	See it on Superhive Full page