I’ve been fiddling with shadows in a project I’m working on and I have a few questions.
The base geometry receives shadows, the upright blocks cast and receive them. I have a single directional light (pointing at Vector3f(.25f,-.35f,-.5f).normalizeLocal()) and am trying to get natural looking shadows cast on and by the blocks. The shadows don’t need to be realtime, but would need to be updated each time a block is placed.
Using PSSR is deprecated according to the wiki, although there isn’t any explanation about why or what the alternatives are. So, why? What are the alternatives?
I had a go with the BasicShadowRenderer (“BSR”), which looks quite poor. I will attatch a BSR (with a 1024 shadow map) vs PSSR image at the bottom of the post. Why does the BSR produce shadows that seem so strange? Can I improve this? Increasing the shadow map > 1024 appears to have little effect.
Finally, I wanted to try out the DirectionalLightShadow, however this class doesn’t exist at all. I’m using JMonkeyEngine SDK RC2 … do I need to update JME or something? Will I have better luck with this renderer, anyway?
BSR:
PSSR:
I definitely don’t have DirectionalLightShadowRenderer and PSSM isn’t deprecated (in the copy of JME which I got with the SDK)… is it recommended that I use a different build of JME than what comes with the SDK?