I am using a Dynamic LightSource for the Light in my Scene and have got a lot of troubles getting them to look good. I have tried every thing you could do under the “Cascaded Shadow Maps” options but It only looks the way I want if you stand directly on the Shadow of for example a Tree. And if you are standing at the start of the Shadow the first Half looks like it should be but then the second half is apperently in the next Cascaded Level or Whatever it is called and it just looks wrong. Is there any way to strech the distance of those different Levels so for example 1000 Units around the Player is the best Detail mode and then the other Cascade Levels are starting. I haven’t seen any options for that anywhere and I tried everything I could think of.
There is a “Dynamic shadow quality improvements” Point in the Roadmap set to be done in June/July but I don’t know if that will add these options to it or just do other improvements, since that Point isn’t very specific about what It will improve.
So do I have to wait for that next Update or is there any way to fix the Shadow Quality now?
Does it looks the same when you run it as a standalone game ? You can try changing the quality setting for the editor, I find that even with editor shadows on a high setting the shadows will still look crisper when running standalone.
I’m not in front of the engine right now, but it looks like your transition fraction is set way too low as well as the shadow distance fadeout fraction.
Changing the Values just make it look worse. “Shadow distance fadeout fraction” just makes a difference from a far to fade shadows away and is not relevant for stuff near you. And “Transition fraction” of 10% is okay and can only go up to 0.3 = 30%, so thats not the problem. The Problem is that that transition happens at a distance I am not able to control or change.
It will make possible for shadows to use more than 3 (or 4) cascades. The more cascades you are using the more heavy shadow rendering is.
Other that than you can tweak some non directly exposed shadow paramters directly in editr using command line cvars that start from r.shadow.*
You will also need, to tweak your shadow setting in directional light. I can’t you give any settings, because it really dependent on level and what are you trying to achieve.
Beyond that Shadow Maps technique are really bad at rendering detailed shadows to begin with. There are always will be trade offs that will depend on myriads of interconnected parameters. Best thing you can do is to tweak these parameters and hope for the best.
