would changing the scale factor of it

[neat lantern]

Shadow resolution, distance and cascades operate in world unit scale, so generally bigger geometry should get better shadows

I'd check what your quality leve's shadow settings are

[neat lantern]

Your shadowmap resolution looks to be 512
Default high quality asset seems to consider "medium" to be 1024

Cascades look fine, although the smaller your max distance is, the more resolution the shadows get

[valid yew]

125 is the closest i can get it to render shadows base on where my camera is to the object im trying to cast them on

[neat lantern]

The scene does place limits on that variable

In that sense

Just so you know "shadow atlas" is the map where all the shadow caster shadowmaps will be compiled to

Did you yet try rotating the light source?

[valid yew]

Yea, didnt effect anything

[neat lantern]

The pixels of the cast shadowmap are in relation to light rotation, as if it were a camera

[valid yew]

it fixes the jags on some places, then gives jags some other places

(rotating light sources on the Z)

[neat lantern]

Ye, it's a situational tradeoff thing
But in some very specific cases can make a huge difference

[valid yew]

Going back to this: is this a problem?

Should these things be changed

[neat lantern]

Yea, try setting the high resolution tier to 2K for example

[valid yew]

i have 4 quality settings, i dont know what this low,medium and high is

[neat lantern]

Those are the default setting presets you might expect the user to choose from options, or which you might want to enforce per platform

Each settings asset defines resolution tiers for shadowmaps

Such as my URP-HighQuality here

Each light component can choose from those tiers, or define its own

I'd try to bump up that light source's resolution a bunch to see if that fixes it

Either with custom or by defining a higher high quality tier

[valid yew]

oh wow. the tiers is what did it!

2048 and it smooth

[neat lantern]

These gaps in the shadow are colloquially known as "peter panning"

[valid yew]

well, good enough, its smooth enough at a distance

[neat lantern]

Which the documentation advises about as

A high Bias value makes the shadow appear “disconnected” from the GameObject

[valid yew]

hm odd.

it says URP_High here.

but if i change the render scale of my URP_GODLIKE asset, it changes the render scale

So what gives

[neat lantern]

They still look kinda blockier than what I'm used to seeing
Could be wide spot light weirdness, or something else

[valid yew]

How do i know what is actually being used in the editor?

i would think its godlike... but that light says otherwise

[neat lantern]

I believe the quality setting the editor uses is the one you selected last in that list, not the one marked green for default

You tend to always get problems if you stray from default bias settings, which I believe are 1 for both bias and normal bias

[valid yew]

I think ths is good enough in all honesty, it looks smooth at this distance

[neat lantern]

Looks just about totally fine to me

You might still get light leaking through corners of meshes

Which is the exact same issue we discussed back in june if you recall

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/988460523328774214/988461757804707870/unknown.png

[valid yew]

Yea i remember, why does lighting in unity have so many caviats

when i used Unreal, it was just dead simple and just worked normally out of the box

[neat lantern]

It's all raster renderers
They either suffer from it or are trying to work around it

Unreal has a lot of clever systems and workarounds for these kind of details, but I guess that's what makes it harder to strip down and generally heavier to work with

[valid yew]

Thank you once again for the assistance my friend

[sonic sinew]

How would you fix this one?

[neat lantern]

[neat lantern]

If they're only at select places, then extra shadow caster geometry should work
But if there's a lot all over, especially when using low-poly meshes, it may be better to instead use a shader that allows smooth-shaded geometry to be rendered with flat normals

[valid yew]

what is "extra shadow caster geometry"?

[neat lantern]

So it appears as solid and continuous to the shadow caster, but as flat-shaded to the viewer

[neat lantern]

Just boxes or geometry of any shape stuffed in to prevent the leaking, preferably with smooth normals and shared vertices

[valid yew]

Aaa i see! Fake it till you make it

[sonic sinew]

Is there a standard shader that allows that?

but indeed, i always used shadow casters for this kind of problem

[neat lantern]

Nope

@sonic sinew https://hextantstudios.com/unity-flat-low-poly-shader/ here's one type of instructions for it

[sonic sinew]

thx

[neat lantern]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/988460523328774214/988464293668323438/FlatShading.unitypackage
I think this is the version of it that we used before

AleksiH did some magic to add a fix for floating point errors