Something is messed up with shadows

[Mad_Shell]

As can be seen on the video, at some angles the valley is in the shadows, while at some other angles it's in the sunlight. Also at the end of the video, the trees on the closest hill cast shadows on another hill, which shouldn't happen.

Messed_up_shadows.trk

[normanleto]

this is a known bug when using flat terrain shadows if I remember good.

[Mad_Shell]

Yup just tested and the trees casting shadows where they shouldn't only happen with flat shadows setting.

[dorianR666]

not bug, performance tradeoff

flat shadows means horizontal grey transparent texture at the objects base, thats it.

 

and the terrain thing is as old as dcs. for some reason, dcs just cannot correctly compute when shadow of a particular object is still in players field of view, so shadows of anything keep popping in and out randomly.

Edited April 15, 2021 by dorianR666

[Flappie]

@dorianR666I've just checked. This issue also happens with "Default" shadows.

[dorianR666]

i believe flat shadows are still used with default setting for distant objects