I was playing with shadows in BabylonJS and trying to get this simple contact hardening shadow done right, currently it’s generating a weired shadow as you can see here: https://playground.babylonjs.com/#ZT8BKT#87 I found it helps if I reduce contactHardeningLightSizeUVRatio but then it is no long…

By tweaking a little bit the min/max shadow Z planes and, most importantly, the spot angle (30° instead of 90°), I could get this: Babylon.js Playground Babylon.js playground is a live editor for Babylon.js WebGL 3D scenes

How to get this simple contact hardening shadow done right?

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newbee January 18, 2024, 8:24pm 6

Hi I do have a follow up question on this regarding ShadowOnlyMaterial in case you have any insight: Abrupt change in shadow effects when using ShadowOnlyMaterial Thanks again!

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How to get this simple contact hardening shadow done right?

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