how to get shadows that get soft with distance?

[fael097]

@TheGabmeister

Hmmm… That’s strange. You mean baked shadows from area lights are pixelated even though lightmap resolution is high? Maybe you accidentally turned on “Compress Lightmaps.”

no, I’m using a directional light as the sun, and tried enabling “use area shadows for stationary light” to get soft shadows

@NilsonLima

@fael097 There is a new path course at the Learn How to Use Unreal Engine - A Powerful Real-Time 3D Creation Platform which teaches a lot of tricks and it is a set of several videos, with a companion project with lots of maps (one per video) which are really useful to understand what is missing giving the doubts you got. Just select in the Learning Path the route for ArchiViz and you will get there quite fast while learning a thing or two on things you might not even have experienced yet.

hey, thanks. you mean the “becoming an architectural visualizer” learning path? I’m checking this one right now!