Canon Man Tutorial: Hierarchical Instanced Static Meshes - July 26th - Live from Epic HQ

[motorsep]

@Shaddenfreude;571145

Hey All,

So on the stream, we were trying to mess around with static shadows. Turns out the Grid Actor and all of it’s components were movable :\ Setting them to static fixed them so they’d generate and receive static shadows. With them being static, lighting built fine, and even if the components were static, it still allowed me to remove instances from the Hierarchical Instance Static Mesh Component.

While testing their removal, it appears as if the static shadows don’t move around with the instance as things get deleted unlike the changing Per-Instance Random values. Of course, cast shadows stayed put creating a number of artifacts.

If I use direct light (static) and my HISMC actor is static also, and I am in ES2 preview, HISMC is pitch black. Plus dithering kills performance.