Foliage has a Shadow noise/grain - How to fix it?

[ClockworkOcean]

I know they are very into ‘early Z pass’, you might try that?

Early Z pass performance breakthrough?

Enabling Early Z pass on Masked materials in render settings is giving me a huge boost in a scene with tons of foliage. However, it is unable to render 2d sprites in some areas while causing jagged shadows of characters in one area. I initially thought that the jagged shadows were being caused because of something else. Turning Early Z pass off or setting it to automatic fixes the shadow issue but brings back the overdraw and shader complexity. My questions: >I have been reading up on early Z …