Hi everyone, I have a question regarding shadowMaps for directional lighting.
Within my scene I can get some slick looking shadows if I ramp up the size of my light.shadow.mapSize.width & height to 16382. I set the mapSize to such a large size because the map covers the whole planet and I need the shadows to show with some level of detail for each tree.
here is a screen shot of the result:
As you can see the performance takes a huge hit because the mapSize is so large.
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Question 2:
can I adjust light.shadow.camera.bottom/top/left/right dynamically? The idea being that I can adjust the camera’s shadowMap location to correspond with the camera’s position. This might allow me to use a much smaller mapSize and just have it move around the scene with the camera.
Question 3:
I noticed that if I add .castShadow for moving geometry the shadowMap automatically updates to reflect those changes in position. Therefore I’d assume that I should be able to have some measure of custom control over when and why the shadowMap updates. So how can I manually update the shadowMap?
The ugly solution would be to create ump-teen directionalLights with their own respective quadrant of the world to caste a shadowMap, and then turn on and off each light as needed, but I really don’t want to have to do this.
Any help with this issue would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.