How do I fix face shadows so they are not blocky, edgy, and tearing?

[BelgarionNL]

I fumbled a bit in the ini's and fixed the shadows of people being extremely blocky etc!

 

but the shadows on the face at character creation is still very ugly and tearing!

 

 

is it even possible to made the shadow look good?

[nosisab]

TES games always had horrible face shadows, Skyrim is one which have the best... but the nearest of real solution to that issue is getting very high shadows textures resolution what can be performance killer in most machines.

[BelgarionNL]

great....

[Sibastion]

I fumbled a bit in the ini's and fixed the shadows of people being extremely blocky etc!

 

but the shadows on the face at character creation is still very ugly and tearing!

 

 

is it even possible to made the shadow look good?

This is a sure fix for the shadows prob, this goes into your ini files, the one in your documents\games\skyrim --skyrimprefs.ini, NOT your game ones in your regular files in program files. They are laid out in order the top being for lower end computers and of course the bottom the higher end comps! don't copy and past just change the numbers and add a line or two if you need but these settings are dope! they fix the shadow issue and don't take any fps, this guy did his homework! I wish I could give credit but I don't know how to get it again!

 

As usual, change this values in your SkyrimPrefs.ini file (it can be found in C:\Users\*USERNAME*\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\ directory):

 

LOW SHADOW DRAW DISTANCE\HIGH SHARPNESS (by me, defosh369):

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=20

fInteriorShadowDistance=2000.0000

fShadowDistance=2000.0000

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=2048

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048

fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000

iShadowMode=4

bTreesReceiveShadows=1

bDrawLandShadows=1

bShadowMaskZPrepass=1

iShadowMapResolution=2048

fShadowBiasScale=0.2400

iShadowMaskQuarter=4

iShadowFilter=4

 

MEDIUM SHADOW DRAW DISTANCE\MEDIUM SHARPNESS (by me, defosh369):

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=20

fInteriorShadowDistance=2000.0000

fShadowDistance=3000.0000

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=2048

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048

fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000

iShadowMode=4

bTreesReceiveShadows=1

bDrawLandShadows=1

bShadowMaskZPrepass=1

iShadowMapResolution=2048

fShadowBiasScale=0.1800

iShadowMaskQuarter=4

iShadowFilter=4

 

HIGH SHADOW DRAW DISTANCE\LOW SHARPNESS (by thenannymoh and defosh369):

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=4

fInteriorShadowDistance=2200.0000

fShadowDistance=4800.0000

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=2048

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048

iShadowMode=4

bTreesReceiveShadows=1

bDrawLandShadows=1

iShadowMapResolution=2048

fShadowBiasScale=0.2000

iShadowMaskQuarter=3

iShadowFilter=4

bDrawShadows=1

bDynamicWindowReflections=1

bUseSunbeams=1

bShadowsOnGrass=1

bActorSelfShadowing=1

[Deleted472477User]

Great! this helps a lot.