Directional Light Shadows and distance

[josk]

The range of a directional light to cast shadows is not very far, light range does not seem to have an effect. I think I remember having this issue before.

 

Any ideas?

[macklebee]

In LE2, there were a number of things that affected shadows

EntityShadowRange - which set how far away from the camera the entity would cast a shadow

SetShadowDistance - which set the distances where the shadow resolution changed for a directional light

 

However, I do not see either EntityShadowRange or SetShadowDistance equivalent commands exposed to LE3's lua. I do not know if they exist in the c++ verision.

[josk]

There is a previous thread about this, could be a bug.

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/8235-sun-shadow-distance-increase/page__hl__directional%20light#entry64386

[shadmar]

I got hacks wich doubles the range (and might create artifacts), but try setting lightning quality first to high and see if it's enough.

 

You can set it in the editor : Tools->Options Video

 

or by code :

 

self.world:SetLightQuality(int)

[josk]

No luck with that, I think its just a bug tat will have to wait to be fixed. Thanks.