Unreal Engine 4 - Stationary shadows seems to change resolution when the camera moves out and in

global99dom · Jun 2021

Hi everyone! I am not really a tech savy person so if I am not really sure if the stationary shadows are suppose to act this way? For my scene all the meshes are stationary, including my directional light and sky light as well. So is there a way to fix this resolution change or is it a engine thing that can't be fixed when dealing with stationary shadows? Attached are the pics of what i am encountering.

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Axi5 · Jun 2021

I'm not overly familiar with Unreal's static shadows but this just looks like mip mapping which is fortunate. So you may see these artifacts go away when you change your project rendering settings & it's not an issue with your baked maps.

Did you supress your on screen display messages like this person:
Lightmaps stuck displaying Lowest Quality - UE4 AnswerHub (unrealengine.com)

rollin · Jun 2021

These are probably dynamic shadows and what you see is the jump between shadow cascades.
If you bake your light your shadows should not change their resolution.

Unreal Engine 4 - Stationary shadows seems to change resolution when the camera moves out and in

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