lighting is set to mixed

[balmy shoal]

Mixed light can be both baked and realtime, depending if you've baked lighting or not

[quiet verge]

I have baked the lighting.

So it's baked.

[balmy shoal]

Lighting Mode is shadowmask, per chance?

[quiet verge]

It's 100% some sort of distance thing because the light leaks go away when I get close.

let me check

[balmy shoal]

Also, check the scale of your scene
Is it made so that one unit corresponds to one meter

[quiet verge]

scale has been dealt with. had to redo everything because of that.

lighting mode is baked indrect

I'm sure it has to be some sort of range thing because all the light leaks go away when I get close to them.

[balmy shoal]

I'm quite sure it can be fixed by increasing shadow distance in quality settings

[quiet verge]

yes yes, that's exactly what I thought too

there're so many shadow settings though, idk which one to play with.

[balmy shoal]

Find the correct quality settings first and foremost

Quality "Tier" if using built-in render pipeline, "asset" if using URP

Then tweak shadow distance only

Try to verify that it has an effect, such as by disabling all shadows when dragging it near zero

You shouldn't need to mess with other settings besides that at this point

[quiet verge]

Yes, but I'm having trouble finding which volume I'm using.

oh, I found it.

issue is that, it goes down correctly.

as in, all shadows dissapear and whatnot, but it does not increase.

[balmy shoal]

Which render pipeline are you using

[quiet verge]

HDRP

here

I'll get screenshot

[balmy shoal]

Ah, try increaseing the Split 1 to see if that has an effect

[quiet verge]

No affect.

but, turning off shadows does not turn them off.

[balmy shoal]

Well it does say "directional light" which is not what we're using

HDRP settings are really scattered all around the place

[quiet verge]

huh... would that be the issue then?

because setting it to 0 gets rid of the shadows

[balmy shoal]

I'm sure it's the shadow distance and/or cascades fading out too early

[quiet verge]

yes

[balmy shoal]

But we could be tweaking the wrong settings

[quiet verge]

well, do you know what settings would affect point lights

[balmy shoal]

I did a quick test and it should work just like that

With the same settings in the Shadows override Max Distance will shorten and lengthen respecitvely the range at which shadows fade out

So it's something else™️

[quiet verge]

yes

because I put a different volume with a higher shadow distance and it looked the same

in fact, it does it even when I disable the entire volume

it even does it in scene view.

so it doesn't have anything to do with the camera.