Has anyone have any idea why my shadows are looking like this?

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

Fresh project UE 5.5

Mesh made in maya.

Normals are fine.

Tried disabling nanite did not do anything.

Even when rotated from all angles.

[ClockworkOcean]

Normals don’t look fine

Can you try selecting the mesh, and ( just to prove me wrong )

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

Didn’t do anything unfortunately…

[ClockworkOcean]

Darn, I wonder if you could upload an FBX here?

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

Can I post google drive links?

[ClockworkOcean]

Yip ( or you can PM me )

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

Cool…

[ClockworkOcean]

Ok, any chance of the textures also ( I’m suspecting normal ).

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

Sure… Mesh.rar - Google Drive

[ClockworkOcean]

Ok, hmm…

This is my material

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

This is mine, even with z-up off its still weird ( just not as checkery ).

[ClockworkOcean]

Beg your pardon, misread it. Hold on ( but it’s related )

Can you try it with a basic material to start with?

I’m assuming you haven’t changed the material domain, or anything?

Looks like its a material issue, somehow…

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

It works mostly but at one or two angles it is still kind of weird.

Plus it is default material.

[ClockworkOcean]

Just cannot duplicate it

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

The rotation of your directional light wont show the weird shadows, mine did. hmm…

[ClockworkOcean]

You’re using a default level, you haven’t tinkered with the directional light or anything?

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

All default, and scratch that it does still show up just less.

[ClockworkOcean]

I can get that

You will see these sort of artifacts, close up.

[PabloEskyBrahYT]

Interesting, I wonder if there is a way to fix it.

I will give it a go in some previous versions a bit later.

Thank you for taking the time to try and help, I appreciate it!

[ClockworkOcean]

I don’t think you’ll get rid of the jags, unless possibly with hardware ray tracing, or offline rendering / static lights.

It’s all a compromise. Most nobody would ever see this stuff.