Striped Shadows appearing on ground

[BlaCkBlitZ]

Like the one in this image.

You can see the obvious thick stripes of shadows just by the door in front... It seems to be at a certain distance from me as in my character moves forward it slowly disappears as if there is a radius around me that they can't appear on.

 

 

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/SithLord100/Skyrim%20Adventures/ScreenShot2-1.jpg

 

 

 

 

I've tried tweaking my ini files a lot and I can't seem to get rid of them.

[Jadak]

Like the one in this image.

You can see the obvious thick stripes of shadows just by the door in front... It seems to be at a certain distance from me as in my character moves forward it slowly disappears as if there is a radius around me that they can't appear on.

 

 

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/SithLord100/Skyrim%20Adventures/ScreenShot2-1.jpg

 

 

 

 

I've tried tweaking my ini files a lot and I can't seem to get rid of them.

 

This is caused by a a 'depth bias' set too low on the light object. Edit the light object in the CK and go to the 'Light Data' tab, there's a slider for depth bias. Click and drag it till the stripes go away. Only change as much as you need to to fix it, setting it too high causes a different bug.

[NomadicAI7]

So guys, could you report back whether this CK tweaking fixed this issue or not? Also, step-by-step walkthrough would be real nice. Can this CK tweaking you suggested be packaged into a mod to be shared with others? Or everybody's systems are different so different values must be determined for the sliders? Thanks in advance.

 

 

Meanwhile, I'll just report the INI tweaks that I've tried. These were found around the Nexus forums and the web. All of these help, but have cons to their pros. So I haven't really found an ideal solution yet.

 

ShadowDistance Tweak ==================================

 

fShadowDistance=20000.0000

 

PRO: Gets rid of this striped shadow line

CON: Shadows become extremely blurry and stretched out because the shadow map is effectively stretched out

 

fShadowBiasScale Tweak ===================================

 

fShadowBiasScale=1

 

PRO: Gets rid of this striped shadow line

CON: Doesn't go far enough

 

fShadowBiasScale=4

PRO: Gets rid of this striped shadow line

CON: Shadows are waaay too elongated

 

iBlurDeferredShadowMask Tweak =============================

 

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=32 (conservative 6)

 

PRO: Gets rid of this striped shadow line

CON: Shadows are blurry and lose sharpness

Edited April 29, 2012 by NomadicAI7