baggettbear opened this issue on Jan 21, 2005 ยท 17 posts
SamTherapy posted Fri, 21 January 2005 at 3:42 PM
Nah, 1024 is adequate for shadow sizes. Take a look at some of my gallery images; I'm a shadow freak and never need to go beyond 1024. I tried a few experiments with a single infinite light to simulate sunlight and came to the conclusion that it's not too great. You will be much better placing a lot of low intensity lights in a globe around your scene, to replicate the scattering of light from the atmosphere and objects in the scene. Make sure shadows are OFF for all these lights. For your main light source, ensure shadows are ON. If you're using the P4 renderer, turn shadows OFF for the ground plane/floor. If you're using Firefly it doesn't matter too much. Also, you'll get nice crisp shadows if you enable Ray Tracing.
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