Hi,
As seen in my 3 screenshots, I am having problems making my model have nice shadows.
I tried in 2.82 and also tried 2.79 thinking it was a weird cycles thing in 2.82
anyways
I enabled subsurface
I then also increased Light size from 0.1 to 0.3
Am I forgetting something?, I also has another project where I was experiencing really sharp vertex/face shadows! on a cylinder… Not sure whats going on
Cheers
Hi, did you try Object -> Shade smooth?
If that doesn’t help it, check out the normals smoothness angle manually by turning off auto smooth in Object Data Properties -> Normals
(you’ll need to shade smooth first before doing that)
Hope that helps 
Cheers!
Thanks for your reply. I checked my shading… was ok.
So I improved shadows by using 1x subsample, change light size to above 1.0
And another was node setup… displacement was effecting shadows a bit!
Anyways it’s good now… just hope the large light size won’t cause Ill effect later
What is your bump node settings? A strength 1 and distance 0.001 (from a black to white input) mimics a bump height of 0.001m (1mm) at strength 1. Show the node setup and images used.
What is your object dimensions/scale ?
It may happen with extremly large object if i’m right.
Maybe try to change the shadow map resolution otherwise
