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[filax]

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[Masterxilo]

Wow, very sharp shadows, looks great.

[Michael Betke]

I've noticed the phenomenon of ultra sharp shadows for a while now and have to say this trned isn't something I toally like.

Look just at a ground shadow of a tree and you will notice most shadows aren't ultrasharp lines but scatter whith their increasing distance away from the shadow-object.

 

This looks just to unrealistic in my opinion.

[Niosop]

You could always apply a blurring algorithm to get softer shadows afterwards. But having visually appealing shadow resolution at various distances would be great.

[Masterxilo]

Nisop is right. This fantastic base in combination with a good blurring method will look much better than current "low-res too few pixels linear interpolation blur and noise" you see in most realtime applications presently.