why are shadows so bad in P3D?

[avi8tir]

With how good things are getting with P3D 4.3, the shadows are still terrible. Great add ons for scenery, airports and aircraft.... yet still crappy shadows. 

Nothing like doing an approach with the best aircraft and the best scenery add ons and the shadow from the engine strake looks like a pixelated scene from Qbert. 

 

[GSalden]

Imho it is not that bad ...

[Swe_Richard]

44 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Imho it is not that bad ...

Whoa. I like the saturated colors in those pictures. How do you achieve that look?

[garydpoole]

1 hour ago, GSalden said:

Imho it is not that bad ...

I agree the shadows look nice from a distance, but the issue is that those close up, particularly in the VC, can sometimes look very pixelated. 

[thibodba57]

Read and try this.  I haven't tried it personally...but ya never know.

http://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=93440

[Guest]

1 hour ago, GSalden said:

Imho it is not that bad ...

Well, some people like to fly a plane while sitting in the cockpit 😁 and the shadows usually look bad there. If you mainly use the sim to shoot landscape pictures the problem isn't too big indeed. 😉

[Guest]

5 hours ago, avi8tir said:

P3D 4.3, the shadows are still terrible

I made a video last year on how to improve shadow quality (at the cost of FPS) here:

Cheers, Rob.

[AnkH]

I use Rob's adjustment and the effect is very noticable, even if you only use half of the suggested resolution in the video. The performance impact is there, but that's no surprise, no?

[Nemo]

14 hours ago, Rob Ainscough said:

I made a video last year on how to improve shadow quality (at the cost of FPS) here:

Cheers, Rob.

Great video. Rob, please could you guide me from where you got that tiny OSD for CPU usage, VRAM usage, Core Temp,  ...

Thanks.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Nemo said:

Rob, please could you guide me from where you got that tiny OSD for CPU usage, VRAM usage, Core Temp,

EVGA Precision OCX ... the font size on the overlay is actually adjustable now, software is free here: https://www.evga.com/precisionxoc/

Cheers, Rob.