Shadows is too expensive

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Hi all!

One question about shadows. I have one directional light in my scene, and it is configured as “stationary”. I have many objects, that can cast shadows. Scene is look like this:

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scene1284×746 350 KB

GPU Profiler shows that a lot of time spent in the shadow casting. Every object take 0.1-0.2 ms for casting shadow.

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scene726×873 20.4 KB

Is it normal situation? Is there way to optimize shadow casting? I repeat I have only one light source. By the way, I have disabled Preshadows. Don’t understand what is this, but it takes too many time too :slight_smile:

Hope for your help!

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I got some answers on the forum. Maybe they will be of interest to you.

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Are your objects stationary or movable?

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On your dynamic light try to play with the settings under Cascaded shadow maps, especially Dynamic Shadow Distance Stationary