# Distance Field quality settings for Distance To Nearest Surface node

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/distance-field-quality-settings-for-distance-to-nearest-surface-node/1256080>\
**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** distance-fields, unreal-engine, question\
**Created:** [August 9, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/distance-field-quality-settings-for-distance-to-nearest-surface-node/1256080 "2023-08-09T21:08:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![PieBaron](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@PieBaron](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/PieBaron)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/distance-field-quality-settings-for-distance-to-nearest-surface-node/1256080/1 "2023-08-09T21:08:15Z")

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Hello, I’m trying to use the Distance To Nearest Surface node in my material, it works ok when the camera is near the object, but I need to render it from a distance, when I move the camera away, the quality becomes degraded and the effect completely un-useable.  
I am not concerned with optimisation or efficiency since this is for an offline render, but I have no idea what setting / parameter needs to be modified to keep the distance fields at the same quality level from far. Any advice would be much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![PieBaron](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@PieBaron](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/PieBaron)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/distance-field-quality-settings-for-distance-to-nearest-surface-node/1256080/2 "2023-08-09T22:19:40Z")

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one of the main issues was that I had a large mesh under my landscape with large exposed backface surface, which was contributing a lot of junk distance field info, disabling distance fields for this mesh helped, but it would be good to figure out how to control distance from camera quality settings.

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**Author:** ![JollyTarkaVFX](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@JollyTarkaVFX](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/JollyTarkaVFX)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/distance-field-quality-settings-for-distance-to-nearest-surface-node/1256080/3 "2024-03-11T22:55:35Z")

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Hi, did you resolve this? I am having the same issue

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**Author:** ![PieBaron](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@PieBaron](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/PieBaron)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/distance-field-quality-settings-for-distance-to-nearest-surface-node/1256080/4 "2024-03-13T12:33:51Z")

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I dont think so no, was a long time ago sorry.