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Author Topic: shadow range and shadow clipping  (Read 4749 times)

stucki

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shadow range and shadow clipping
« on: July 20, 2011, 05:08:54 pm »
July 20, 2011, 05:08:54 pm
hello

we are testing lumion on a larger scene.
14 industrial buildings in a green environment.

we are doing some first test renderings and have some issues with shadows.

i cant get the shadow settings right, so could you please explain range and clipping to me ?

i attached three images for explaining my problem:

shadow_range_min
here the shadow is sharp but blurs out very fast
shadow_range_med
here the shadow is a little less sharp but blurs out not so fast
shodow_range_max
here the shadow is worse than in shadow_range_med ??
i expected this to be the best
 
isnt there the possibility to render sharp shadows as far as i can see ?
i remember an older post where you mentioned the shadow to be rendere sharp over every distance, or am i wrong ?

best regards
stucki


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stucki

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Re: shadow range and shadow clipping
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2011, 10:46:35 am »
July 21, 2011, 10:46:35 am
??
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Ferry

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Re: shadow range and shadow clipping
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2011, 03:12:23 pm »
July 21, 2011, 03:12:23 pm
Realtime shadows use 3 levels of shadow which are divided over what you see. It is not possible to have 1 setting that is always good else we wouldn't have made a range slider.

Basically if you are high up in the aid a far range is good for long distances. But if you would go close to the landscape it would become less good. So to fix that you choose less range. In a clip you can animate the range of the shadow to match what you are seeing.
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stucki

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Re: shadow range and shadow clipping
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2011, 03:35:11 pm »
July 21, 2011, 03:35:11 pm
there is no option like best shadow resolution as far as i can see in the rendering.
not in the viewport.
as you can see on the examples i attached the bluring of the shadows is very unreal.

in an animation will there always be visible edges where the shadows start to blur ?

i thought i read in this forum a while ago that shadow rendering has been improved for long distances ..

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Ferry

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Re: shadow range and shadow clipping
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2011, 06:08:09 pm »
July 21, 2011, 06:08:09 pm
We long ago changed the maximum range that is all.
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stucki

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Re: shadow range and shadow clipping
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2011, 06:33:13 pm »
July 21, 2011, 06:33:13 pm
is there room for improvement in the future, or is this a gpu limitation ?
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Ferry

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Re: shadow range and shadow clipping
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2011, 07:09:18 pm »
July 21, 2011, 07:09:18 pm
For the realtime view it is hard to improve it without sacrificing speed. For non real time movie rendering we will probably be able to get it perfect in a future release.
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stucki

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Re: shadow range and shadow clipping
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2011, 07:13:49 pm »
July 21, 2011, 07:13:49 pm
realtime view is fine as it is,
glad to hear that for the final rendering shadow can be improved.

thanks for the quick answers
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stucki

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Re: shadow range and shadow clipping
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2011, 09:34:20 am »
July 23, 2011, 09:34:20 am
just rendering out a new animation of an industrial zone.
these shadows are making me mad ... sometimes when rotating the camera view shadows grow sharp and soft and sharp again. its a little bit unsatisfying ... as an architect i just dont like these blurred shadows..


any chance the final shadow quality/range could be improved in the near future

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