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[rosegoldslugs]

Why wouldn't you use CSM with world comp?

CSM with an open world is pretty much your only option in Unreal, unless you also support Distance...

[rosegoldslugs]

Seems to me like it's a flat plane with the media texture for the emissive. Most of the light coming from it seems to be more specular than diffuse which...

[rosegoldslugs]

What do the Light Shaft Bloom settings look like? Does it happen with another HDRI? Do you have realtime enabled in the viewport?

Usually...

[rosegoldslugs]

I haven't tried this out yet but metalness shouldn't have an impact other than the higher reflectance, as usual. The -1/1 should determine which direction...

[rosegoldslugs]

If the shadow is meant to have hard edges and the pieces are created at runtime, it could be an issue with their bounding boxes and them switching between...

[rosegoldslugs]

What is that shadow casting object? If you type FreezeRendering in the console when the shadow gets cut off and move the camera, does whatever that object...

[rosegoldslugs]

Yeah, just dither the opacity based on camera distance. It can look pretty ugly with ghosting but it allows you to keep the material alpha-tested and...

[rosegoldslugs]

If you press 'G' in the viewport, do you see the same difference?

If so, you've disabled specular or the reflection environment in the viewport....

[rosegoldslugs]

By default, those types of indirect lighting samples are no longer used. Instead, you would want to look at Volumetric Lightmaps, just under Volume Lighting...

[rosegoldslugs]

That's exactly how the in-engine color grade works right now actually. You see the final tonemapped image in your display color space and gamma, but the...