Softer Shadows

Fazijinn

Hey guys I got a point light system set up in my scene which is able to move when its in game mode. I was wondering if there's anyway of getting softer shadows with point light. I know Point light (just like Maya) is really expensive because of it being Quadratic so it mimics real world light physics. And I know its super expensive because of it. But Is there any way around it? I've adjusted the shadow resolution, the bias, the normal bias which did nothing.  I've changed the camera near plane clipping because I heard it affects the shadows. But that did nothing. Is there any Plug-in or method/technique I can use to make the shadows not be jagged.  I can't create a light map because that only works on a static scene. Is there any chance of fixing it? 
Many thanks.

JedTheKrampus

Point lights aren't expensive because they use an inverse square falloff, they're expensive because to render shadows with them they have to render 6 shadow maps, one for each side of the cube map. Unity's renderer tries to compensate for this by using an inferior shadowing filter (compared to their directional shadows which use a 9-tap percentage closer filter that looks much better.) So, if you need better shadows you should use spot or directional lights. If you have a point light it might look better with no shadows or hard shadows than Unity's ugly point light soft shadows.

minev

I would recommend:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/10153

Disclaimer: have absolutely nothing with above asset, it's simpy a well done solution. 

Fazijinn

minev said:

I would recommend:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/10153

Disclaimer: have absolutely nothing with above asset, it's simpy a well done solution. 

ahh thank you so much for this! Ill definetly check it out and see if it improves it some more. I kinda fixed the issue! But I would love to see how this plugin handles it

RyanB

Maybe your quality settings are too low https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-QualitySettings.html

Make sure your shadow distance is as low as possible, you can get away with lower settings on the other shadow parameters if you adjust the distance to the lowest value before you see shadows popping in.

Monkzoren

Also this is good - https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/11102

Fazijinn

Thank you guys so much for your help and support on this! yes I tried using Shadow softener it didn't make a whole lot of a difference but it did definitely try and soften the shadows. The support team for that unity asset are incredibly friendly and helpful!
Moving on, as soon as I got Unity pro everything sorted itself out. Which was kinda odd?