How to Fix Ortho View Directional Shadows Not Appearing?

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Hello! I’m brand new to the Unreal Engine and while going through the 5.8 docs, in which they explain features through the First Person project template, I noticed that when they’re showing off the Ortho views (like Top) in the Level Editor Viewport there are directional shadows being cast by objects. However, when I open up the same project, mine does not show those same directional shadows in Ortho views; they are only cast in Perspective mode.
Does anyone know how I can fix this? The UE chatbot has tried to help, but nothing has ended up working, so i thought I’d come here to ask.

Any help would be great!! Thanks

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Hi @ThawingFungus The orthographic editor viewports (Top/Front/Side) don’t always render directional shadows the same way as Perspective view.

I’d check:
View Mode = Lit
Show → Lighting and Show → Shadows are enabled
Test in a fresh First Person template

Hopefully that works for you
You can use this documentation to help with this too:
Using Editor Viewports in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.8 Documentation | Epic Developer Community
Orthographic Camera in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.8 Documentation | Epic Developer Community