I made another playground which has some better shadows and environment texture intensity is at 1
Trick here I guess is the light intensity is at 5, which produces stronger shadows?
Will post some more examples with SSS
To get shadows on the dragon, you need to set receiveShadows = true for the corresponding mesh.
However, it’s tricky to get self shadows with the ESM technique, you have to tighten the light frustum as much as possible (see lines 17-18):
But doing so, you get some light artifacts on the opposite side of the dragon, that you can fix by setting shadowGenerator.forceBackFacesOnly = false:
