Hello all. With virtual shadow maps, I’m having trouble getting detailed shadows to stay visible as I move the camera further from mesh geometry. This is just with a single directional light, movable. [vsm_pop] As this picture tries to show, moving a slight distance forward towards this mesh resu…

I think I actually figured it out just now. I was looking at all the console commands starting with “r.shadow.virtual” and I found some not listed in the doc - there’s one called r.Shadow.Virtual.contactShadowLength. Changing that from the default .02 to .01 or less actually fixed the draw distance…

Improving Virtual Shadow Map Distance/Quality

Development Rendering

MineLucky (MineLucky) January 5, 2024, 8:30am 15

5.3 can use r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold 0.01(deault:0.03)

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