You are a god amongst men. I exclusively play in third person and that on body shadows were giving me a headache. Everywhere else I asked they just said "increase shadow resolution" assuming I have this swaggy gaming PC. These tweaks fixed it completely!
I like the not having any more shadow stripping on my face but I did notice that the tweak has my shadow being a little ways away from my character to where it's no longer connecting to my feet properly. Any idea how to fix this? > https://imgur.com/wrTrNFy.jpg
*Update* I fixed it by lowering my fShadowBiasScale from 1.6500 to 0.7000 to where my shadow still connects to my character properly and no shadow stripping on my face any more :)
You must be the son of Talos. Endorsed, tracked, and voted.
I'm constantly editing my ini files, but I simply haven't had the time to investigate the shadows more. Which honestly, is the worst part of TESV. Those shadows kill me. Thanks for this.
I never had this issue before on my old 2010 gaming desktop and now running a 2015 reg laptop. My system outdates Skyrim and it's needs, but recently I started having shadow issues on my character and NPC's always flickering changing their shading every few seconds wether I was running around, idle or when I'd just change the angle of the camera. So far this has helped me eliminate most of the problem, but not fix it entirely and all my settings are on low like I normally put them on anyways for heavy mod use. The flickering is now at more tolerable level and not giving me headache or making me wanna heave. So thank you for this! Hopefully I'll eventually eliminiate the issue altogether one day. Until then, Happy Modding!
So, I think I am back. I think. I will try to respond to questions that simply missed an anwser, even if the question is way out of date, just for future reference for possible new users of my tweaks. I am back because I want to go back into some good old tweaking. Reason is quite simple, new Bethesda game has been released latley. New Fallout. I want to dig into tweaking Fallout 4 step by step and try to solve some issues here and there by tweaking stuff.
How it works out, we will have to see.
I think that that game needs some tweaking of shadows aswell. Of course it's not at the same level of Skyrim, since not much visual tweaking is needed, as this time we got soft shadows with a cherry on the top, and that is the best next gen thing ever, proper shadow blur, with what it seems variable shadow penumbra, that was much needed in Skyrim shadows in general. Why I will try to tweak Fallout shadows then, you might ask, well, it simply needs performance optimizations. And to be brutally honest, the whole game not only needs optimizations in the shadow related side of things, but general settings optimization aswell. Which I can try to do in my spare time, which is sadly not much latley, since past year and a half I have a full time job that, as you might imagine, is taking most of my free time and I'm really focusing on it. In the end, I will try to do something about this.
As you might now, in some areas of the game the performance is quite horrid and some systems aren't able to run the game as well as they should. Simple as that. Which I believe can be fixed with some good old tweaking.
Anyways, enough of the chit-chat already. Will see how things will turns up. I am digging into Fallout at this very moment and, if I discover someting substantial, or simply something worth sharing, I will let you know straight away in Fallot Nexus. And since I will dig into Fallout Nexus, I will check Skyrim Nexus a lot more, so please post your question straight away, I will try to anwser them as soon as possible.
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I'm constantly editing my ini files, but I simply haven't had the time to investigate the shadows more. Which honestly, is the worst part of TESV. Those shadows kill me. Thanks for this.
I have problems with shadows popping up but no matter what i set this value to i can't see any changes, not even the detached character shadows.
I am back because I want to go back into some good old tweaking. Reason is quite simple, new Bethesda game has been released latley. New Fallout. I want to dig into tweaking Fallout 4 step by step and try to solve some issues here and there by tweaking stuff.
How it works out, we will have to see.
I think that that game needs some tweaking of shadows aswell. Of course it's not at the same level of Skyrim, since not much visual tweaking is needed, as this time we got soft shadows with a cherry on the top, and that is the best next gen thing ever, proper shadow blur, with what it seems variable shadow penumbra, that was much needed in Skyrim shadows in general.
Why I will try to tweak Fallout shadows then, you might ask, well, it simply needs performance optimizations. And to be brutally honest, the whole game not only needs optimizations in the shadow related side of things, but general settings optimization aswell. Which I can try to do in my spare time, which is sadly not much latley, since past year and a half I have a full time job that, as you might imagine, is taking most of my free time and I'm really focusing on it. In the end, I will try to do something about this.
As you might now, in some areas of the game the performance is quite horrid and some systems aren't able to run the game as well as they should. Simple as that. Which I believe can be fixed with some good old tweaking.
Anyways, enough of the chit-chat already. Will see how things will turns up. I am digging into Fallout at this very moment and, if I discover someting substantial, or simply something worth sharing, I will let you know straight away in Fallot Nexus. And since I will dig into Fallout Nexus, I will check Skyrim Nexus a lot more, so please post your question straight away, I will try to anwser them as soon as possible.
I am glad it was helpful.