cyberdome posted at 10:33AM Mon, 21 December 2020 - #4407833

I've had this issue. Simplest solution was to add a zero to the displacement value, lowering it by 90%.

thanks for the suggestion! I did try to change the strength before, but there's a small problem there. While your approach fixed the issue with the weird, overly dark shadows, it also reduces the maximum height of the "hills" which i need to keep.

I also tried changing the infinite light to an area light, in the hopes of fixing "something" but it didn't really work. It made the hills look smoother, but the shadows were still too dark.