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Time of Day + shadows = jitter

by Adam Beer · in Torque 3D Professional · 09/18/2014 (11:18 pm) · 4 replies

Hey Everybody,

I'm running into an issue of my shadows being jittery when a Time of Day object is introduced in the world. I have seen a thread on this problem before but my 25 minute search came up with nothing. Anyone have a link to the thread or a suggestion on how to fix this jitter?

Thanks!
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Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#1
09/19/2014 (8:38 am)
I have always gotten that - the shadows look like they're "crawling" for lack of a better term.

A 10 minute search of GG found this: http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/127979
Which should be a start.

Perhaps fiddling with antialiasing, either full screen or in the shadow mapping, might help but I'm not really an expert....

Torque Owner Adam Beer
Ignition Games Inc.
#2
09/24/2014 (4:58 pm)
Thanks Richard! This is the exact post I was looking for. Too bad it doesn't really affect the time of day object though.

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#3
09/24/2014 (5:02 pm)
I'm not sure it was meant to have anything directly to do with the time of day object - I'm pretty sure that anything with a shadow that moves has this same shadow issue....

And it is an issue with shadows, really. Just drop a tree with wind animations and you'll see the exact same "crawling."

Torque Owner D Fasel
Game 3D
#4
09/28/2014 (8:02 am)
This realy should be improved! But no idea how.

I think the whole shadow system is too laagy! thats why you see the jitter.