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Dark spaces cast by the presence of a solid object blocking the flow of light. Often helpful for telling where your character is going to land.

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I cast shadows in either opened or closed environment for a directional light whose lookat position follows the player position. So the shadowmap is refreshed regularly so that I cannot store a fixed ...
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I have added cascaded shadows to my pipeline. The whole process seems to works fine as shown in the picture. But I should obtain a progressive “zoom” from the first cascade (red) to the last (blue) ...
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I'm using Godot/Redot for my game development but so far this happens when camera projection is orthogonal, there's unknown light following the viewport when the camera is moving. Here's the example ...
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I have been testing out various lighting and shadow settings in Unity since during play mode the stats are showing a much higher set pass call and triangle count to what I know my model has. I have ...
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The grass painted onto my terrain is in the shadow area of the house wall, but they're not receiving shadows. Why does this happen?
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This question is about planar shadows as explained in Frank Luna's DX11 book. The author presents the 4x4 shadow matrix, whose bottom right element is n\$\cdot\$L (where n is the plane's normal and L ...
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I think I got the main idea of shadow cascades but I have misunderstanding of transforming shadow cascades using matrices for getting correct a result. I understand it this so Define shadow cascade ...
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This is my first attempt in implementing shadow mapping. I am using right hand coordinate system and my projection matrices are producing z values from 0 to 1. I've decided first to use orthogonal ...
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I don't know how to achieve or research smooth lighting on foliage, like in this screenshot of theHunter: Call of the Wild. The grass is translucent, but blocks light smoothly when it's tall and ...
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I'm trying to cast shadows from a small (3cm) sphere onto a table surface. If I place a large object, I get shadows as expected, but below a certain size, I get nothing. I appreciate that under ...
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I am trying to make a dithering effect on the player so that when the camera comes below or very close to the player he will be dotted or transparent like in Genshin Impact. So, I followed a tutorial ...
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I'm trying to make a giant minecraft world but light keeps seeping through everything, as every block is paper-thin. Is there a way to increase its thickness? Notice the edges of the meshes. Light is ...
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I have a problem with gaps in shadows in Unity. I know that there are many questions about that, but all of the answers are usually about setting bias property to 0. But this didn't help me. I use ...
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I am looking to draw 2D sprites that cast artificial 3D shadows onto a flat terrain using an additional depth-texture when rendering the sprites. A black/white depth texture is used to add a height-...
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I'm working with a OpenGL ES/GLSL homebrew engine my company developed, in C++. Below is a screenshot of it rendering shadow acne. The light's direction is too perpendicular to the face of the curve ...
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Unreal 4.27, newbie and experimenting, will switch to 5 if supporting features are not available in 4. I have a light on the left side of the room pointed toward the right side. In the middle of the ...
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I recently have started making my game in Unity and making models to go alongside it. However, I export my models as an FBX and am able to successfully get them into the game, but unfortunately it ...
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I have one Light Source ( Directional Light ) with Mixed Mode. Lighting Mode in Lighting Window I seted to Subtractive. What the problem looks like How I would like the shadows to blend. How to ...
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I have a 2D heightmap with discrete values. Based on these values they should cast a fixed position shadow (constant angle respective to the "sun"). I can figure out how to cast it on a flat ...
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For example I have 3 shadow cascades. A shadow is cast by a hill in my 2nd cascade, but the shadow itself is cast into not only the 2nd cascade but also the 1st. In the shader program, in order to ...
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When in distance the shadows are appearing correctly but when getting near to the shadows it is getting clipped in a weird way. I was not able to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.
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I'm trying to implement a directional light in my C++ / OpenGL engine, but I struggle to calculate the shadow bounding box (i.e the shadow frustum). The bounding box has to encompass the main frustum ...
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I am using Unity Built-in render pipeline 2020.3.5 I have a weird shadow projection when pointing at game objects with my flashlight (spotlight). It looks like the shadow is floating or is another ...
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I am trying to achieve a day/night lighting system similar to the game RimWorld. Short preview of what I want can be seen here: https://giphy.com/gifs/VgzcwtjueP7BrYSrXe Instead of using Global Light ...
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I'm trying to calculate shadows by projecting the silhouette of each object seen by the light source. (The shadows are just going to go on planes.) To get each silhouette I take a snapshot from the ...
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I saw this while testing my game. I have a light situated behind the Main Camera. All is working perfect, until I get a Game Over, and changes to the Game Over scene. From then, all lights have no ...
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I am implementing cascade shadow mapping algorithm and currently stuck with matrix transformations - my AABBs, when projected in light space are pointing in the direction opposite to the light: I was ...
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Alright, I found this question with the same problem but it's out of date Jagged shadows with default settings My problem is a discrepancy between shadow quality settings in editor vs apk built to ...
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I'm trying to code a simple game via OpenGL C++. I've implemented a point light, parallax effect with textures, objects from blender etc. but I seem to have an issue with my percentage closer ...
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I'm making a 2D top-down survival game similar to Rimworld, I'm trying to emulate a day-night system. Many features depend on whether any tile is light (or dark) ...
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I'm trying to cast shadows from a 1D texture that goes from white to back according to the distance given by an occlusion map. That part I think I got it right. The problem lies on the algorithm to ...
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I have a solar system... The central star has a point light attached to it. However, objects don't cast shadows on each other... Planets are < 20 units from the star, so it's not a light falloff ...
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As a learning exercise I'm trying to recreate the 'new game' scene with the sphere on a plane. Mostly working but two issues: Shadows are not working. Skybox light (reflected on the sphere) is not ...
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Description I'm trying to create a water shader, and at this point in development I'm using a Photoshop-generated cloud texture as a map for vertex displacement. The displacement itself works just ...
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I'm using Unity, URP and have 2d sprites characters in a 3D environment. I want 2D sprites to be affected by lights/shadows like the rest of the environment. -I know if I use a 2D renderer I can use ...
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I currently use Unity 2018 LTS, because of my 2019 Unity colours are not really good. For example, the white is not really white but more like grey and the Shadows are really strong too even if I ...
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I'm trying to implement variance shadow mapping in my engine. I'm using WebGL 2 and now I have only one directional light source. It's working, but it has a serious issue near the shadow edges and I ...
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I've been experiencing this lighting bug in my game. As you can see there is a box around the player on the back wall and underneath it. the platform and back wall are 3D objects and the player is a ...
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I'm trying to make shadows become more blurry as the distance between the caster and receiver, so they look a little more realistic. What method can I use to achieve this?
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I want to make fade for my player shadow. I don't know if it's possible or not. In my skinned mesh render there is "Cast shadows" with four options "Off, On, Two sides, and Shadows Only". How to do it ...
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I'm trying to optimize my Unity game. I have static objects, dynamic objects and (only) static lights. I wish to fully pre-compute lighting and shadows for the static objects while still ...
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In some games, I see lights shining through walls, even if I set video quality on high levels. A couple of examples of games I recently played are Borderlands 2 (missile explosions) and Call of ...
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I'm creating many GameObjects and each one has a single mesh, created in a script. The problem is that I would like to draw them so that they behave like a single mesh. Is it possible? Or I must ...
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I created an empty Shader Graph by clicking Create -> Shaders -> PBR Graph. I created the material for this shader and assigned it to my game object, but the object does not cast a shadow. If I ...
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I want to cast shadows of animated 2d character on a level like this : The only thing here I want is dynamic shadows for anima2d character as animation progresses.Is there a way of achieving shadows ...
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I am fairly new to graphics programming, and I am working on a rudimentary game engine in C++. I had some old graphics code written in Java that I translated, but for some reason the shadows are not ...
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I was reading Shadow Mapping with Directional Lights and noted that spotlights are implemented by rendering with the perspective projection, stating that the spotlight worked just like the camera. ...
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I'm building a puzzle level in Unity. I have a ball with cracks on it and a point light inside it. The goal is to project the light coming through the cracks into the walls. I've managed to do that ...
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This is using the default shader and depth shader from LibGdx. It creates lines at the blocks intersections. This is what I use to create the blocks models for now: ...
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While playing around with the box2dlights with libGDX, I have managed to get it all up and running, but have a problem with the shadow rendering. This is what I currently have atm: With the lighting ...
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