Although I can make lamp size smaller to reduce the blocky shadows, this will make lighting not diffuse enough to become overcast weather.
Is there any tip to make Overcast Soft Shadow in EEVEE or this is the limitation by design ?
1 big area light:
25 area lights with less power:
Both at 128 samples and default shadow map resolution. There’s a big difference in light fall off, but the quality is still way better even when using a small amount of area lights than a single big one, where the fall off is more similar. You could also try irradiance volumes, but I’m not a big fan of how fiddly that whole workflow is.
In general I’d try to solve this with multiple lights with different settings. Or if the time to light it takes too long then switch to Cycles.
Edit:
After some tweaking, raised the samples and added sun lights with slight angle varitations to combat the light fall off of area lights:
Light setup:
Could definitely be arrenged better. Also contact shadows don’t work that great in this case and some of the odd shadows on my last render are due to that. Disabling them on light arrays fixes that.
wow, such a creative way. I’m thinking too straight. Thanks you
btw, in the final light setup screenshot, is it from front view ?
I can’t comprehend how to look at light direction.
I hope this is clear enough.
Since the blend file is under a mb in size: Arealight_Quality.blend (986.0 KB)
Thanks you ^^
