I’m running into an issue with shadows where they start behaving strangely after some time. Initial, everything-is-ok state: [shadows_fine] However, after some time (a few minutes ~ 10+ minutes or so) of rendering, the shadows begin to become really choppy, and move around at the edges: …

Unfortunately, I don’t own a mac m1. even without any caster mesh, do changing filtering/filtering quality and mapSize have an influence on framerate?

What is happening is probably the shadow frustrum size getting bigger as long as you grow the scene dynamically ??? Is it the same if you do nothing for ten minutes but rendering ?

@Cedric I think you replied to the wrong thread :slight_smile: (should be Shadow Generator + Shadows cause massive FPS drop on MacOS instead)

As @sebavan said, if you add more and more (shadow caster) meshes to your scene, the frustum light will get bigger and bigger to encompass all the meshes and the precision of the shadows will decrease more and more. You could use a cascaded shadow generator instead, but as you already have some per…

[image] sebavan: Is it the same if you do nothing for ten minutes but rendering ? I actually noticed it after leaving the game idle for a while and then coming back to my computer. No changes occurred at all during this idle period except for rendering (and the monster meshes wandering aroun…

Shadow quality low with moving / "quivering" edges

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Evgeni_Popov September 17, 2021, 5:14pm 5

@Cedric I think you replied to the wrong thread (should be Shadow Generator + Shadows cause massive FPS drop on MacOS instead)

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