Hi I got this shadow around my camera that follows me around as if the camera itself is casting it.
How can I get rid of it??
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I’m having the same issue, spent all day trying to get to the bottom of it, eventually found it’s where the skylight isn’t lighting the scene, but I can’t figure out why.
Just seen your post was from two years ago, not yesterday lol
Did you figure this out?
okay , in my case , it’s individual static mesh setting messed up , I deleted floor sm actor , drag new instance into the scene ,shadow is gone now,… but no idea wich setting lead to this artifact…
I don’t know if it’s the same thing but I started experiencing this and other strange shadow and lighting issues in my scene. I had earlier been playing around with settings in my Ultra Dynamic Sky. I dragged a new Ultra Dynamic Sky blueprint into the scene, deleted the old one I suspected causing the issue and it fixed it.
There are actually several settings that contribute to the shadow following the camera (with Stationary and Movable lights), and I thank God for showing me how to fix it!
Basically this is due to the shadow cascades. In your Directional Light, under the “Cascaded Shadow Maps” section, the higher the “Distribution Exponent” is set, the worse the effect will be, because it’s concentrating the shadow cascades closer to the camera.
However, you can actually keep this value high if you want sharper shadows close to the camera, and instead change a different value under the “Light” section, called “Shadow Cascade Bias Distribution”. This is set to 1 by default, and I found that setting it to 0.5 basically solved the issue.
With “Num Dynamic Shadow Cascades” set to 3 and “Distribution Exponent” set to 3, a value of 0.5 for the “Shadow Cascade Bias Distribution” seemed to work well, but you may need to tweak it a bit if you’re using different values and can still see the shadow. Additionally, you can increase the “Transition Fraction” setting to make the blend even smoother, but the tooltip claims this will increase shadow cost a bit).
The screenshot with the visible ring around player location - that’s actually your post process setup.
One of the settings in there - don’t recall which but related to something like athmosphere - is the main cause of it.
And it can also be part of the eye adaptation bit since it works as a post process - so when checking/testing you want to turn off eye adaptation to be sure its not part of the final result.
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It’s always a good idea to bypass any Post Process volumes to see if they might be affecting anything. In my case though, the dark shadow band following the camera was directly caused by the Shadow Cascade Bias Distribution being set to 1.0 on the Directional Light. Setting it to 0.5 solved it.
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