udk shadows disappear over distance?

Mypeople

I have my character in my environment and my character is the only thing casting shadows. up close all the shadows are casting on him fine, if i move back just a few feet the shadows start to fade away on him? sorry, i'm still new to a lot of unreal and i figured i'd finally ask how to keep this from happening.

cholden

Screenshot! You may be reffering to the extremely intense SSAO that's in UDK by default or I may be crazy.

EDIT: Also, post in the UDK sub-forum, geez!

Mypeople

On the left he loses the shadow off everything. on the right (up close)its all there

Lamont

There is a distance for when the shadows draw. I am not sure where this setting is.

Mypeople

does it matter that i have point lights overhead? i cant find the distnace anywhere for this setting. i just wanted something like in doom, where there was shadows coming off of the characters always. i cant find how to do this i guess.

Chai

Ya I had a similar issue, but in extreme distances .. I think this stuff is hardcoded ..
The only thing I came with before I stopped using UDK was this :
* in UDKEngine.ini, ShadowFadeResolution=0 will force shadow to never fade. (however it will still LOD)

Mypeople

thanks chai, ill try that out.

You stopped using udk? why come?

Chai

Mypeople - hmm many reasons.. I don't think it was optimal for my particular game requirements, to the point it just couldn't do some things I needed.

no worries hope it works out for you

JZChughtai

where is the ShadowFadeResolution? it's not in the UDKEngine.ini...