Geometry casts shadow on itself?

[Perjin]

This is the expected result of the current implementation of the shadow renderer because the shadow is applied after the scene has been rendered.
I’m currently working on an improved version which is not ready yet but will look much better.

Improved shadow renderer

Hello, the current implementation of shadow rendering leads often to unsatisfactory results, i want to create a better way of applying the shadows. The idea is to render the shadows during the pre frame stage and evaluate them during the render pass. I created a shader node for which can be used for materials to receive shadows, the output of this node should be multiplied with the light intensity/color and the rest of the rendering can then continue. So far i made a basic implementation, i …