Why does my sun shine through my terrain and meshes?

AdrianDumitrescu
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:29:28 +0000
Rendering

I will borrow another user’s screenshots because they show our common problem best:

Now, I have dug the entire internet for day / night cycle and found many tutorials that seem to copy oneanother. I used a timeline, set the light to be movable, updated the sun, etc. I even dimmed the sun through a curve so its brightness is off at night and max at noon. Played with this quite a bit.

But overall the result is still ugly and unnatural. I want to know why this is happening and how can I fix it. I will still turn it completely off when its totally dark to save processor power & such but at sundown and sunup its messed up: either the shadows pop in and out respectively, or there is too much sun in that transition period, or you can see sun shining through the ground.

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