Adjusting shadow color

Development Rendering
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Hi there,

I tried to find a solution for this by myself, but without a satisfying success.

I use fully dynamic lighting in a open world (1 movable directional ligh as sun, night/ days changes).

What is really bugging me is that shadow areas are fully black. I looked for some global ambient light setting where I could adjust the shadow color to a more greyish tone, but I couldn’t find any (but I’m sure there MUST be something like this).
Same goes for the night, which is deep black at the moment (I’ll add a second light for the moon later, probably I could fix it with that).

Here some screens to illustrate what I mean:

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My goal is to achieve a realistic light setting interacting with different types of weather later.

I also have a question how to adjust the LOD Distance to the player camera…at the moment LOD meshes and blurry texture streaming starts much too soon…but I’ll try to find a solution to the first by myself since I don’t what to bug you with something that could be fix using google.

Thanks in advance

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You want to use a Skylight.

It takes the colour of your sky and ambient-lights the rest of the scene using that colour.

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Thanks Crow87, it worked find. I’ll adjust it’s intensity tied to the timeline to simulate authentic daytimes

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Also make sure to disable “cast shadow” in the skylight -> then those very black shadows will be brighter :slight_smile:

You can adjust the lod’s in the static mesh editor -> type in auto -> disable the “auto…” under the lod settings -> now at every lod stage you can adjust the distance (should be somewhere under the material slot -> cant post you a picture, because right atm I dont have the engine in front of me ;))

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Thanks ,

it helped with the LOD’s