Hello!
After many hours of fun and trouble in UE4 I stumbled across something that was unsolvable for me.
Mesh not casting shadow. I have searched all the forums and tried everything but it doesn’t help.
All spotlights,skylight and directional sunlight are set to stationary, not static.
Rendering is set to maximum quality and GI is set to 100 bounces.
I have a screenshot attached here so if anyone could help me out I would be thankful!
did u check the cast shadow on the static mesh?
Yep cast shadows checked on static mesh and all lights
Yes they are
The ground, wall, and furniture are all set to static?
Any help ?
what is the lightmap resolution? There is no direct lighting hitting there so it would only be ambient occlusion that is visible. If you scale that mesh up a bit, eventually you should see a bit of AO in the corners. Have you tried messing with the lightmass settings under world properties? Settings like “fully occluded samples fraction” may help quite a bit. Also maybe crank occlusion power to see. And hiding the entertainment center mesh and taking a screenshot of the ground underneath it will tell the real story of what is going on under there.
As it is, there may be AO underneath that we can’t see and theres no res for it to exist at high quality. That said I see a hint of AO behind the monitor. If the resolution is the same on the wall/floor the AO should match.
edit you said 100 bounces, thats probably why. Try reducing it way down. With so many bounces, light will find its way into the corners and it will really negate the AO.
Updating after a while to let everyone who has this problem that this is the solution!
Thank you Ryan, you are my saviour!
I actually never realised that GI bounces could affect shadows that much, well Ambient Occlusion simulates shadows at edges and everyone who knows lighting and rendering good would have known this. Poor stupid me!
Thank you once again, I owe you one!
