Strange shading on skeletal mesh

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I’m having trouble understanding why my skeletal mesh is being shaded this way. after some thorough searching I only found one result with a similar problem, and that thread didn’t really have a solution other than “it might have something to do with the material”

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Without seeing your mesh or material it’s difficult to tell. A few things that come to mind:

  1. Did you perform a “Soften Edge” command in Maya (I believe the 3DS Max equivalent is setting all faces to the same smoothing group, not 100% sure)
  2. Do you have an unbaked light in the scene?
  3. Do you use DFAO?
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Ah, I did perform a soften edge command, and I’ve noticed it on another model where I did the same thing. Is there not a proper way to do that without getting that result?

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Here’s a better picture of what’s happening.

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Hi Joolean,

  1. Try to make your mesh completly smooth in your modeling application.
  2. Check in your directional light source the setting ‘Num Dynamic Shadow Cascades’. Set this to a lower value, maybe the artifact disappears.