Really Beginner Question About Shadows and Rendering (2.8)

Hi!

I’m just playing around with Blender 2.8 and I’m confused about why shadows/lighting seems fine when rendering in Cycles but not in Eevee. Did I miss flipping a “render shadows” switch somewhere?

Cycles:

Eevee:

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In order to make this particular scene ‘almost’ identical, you should look into these settings and tweak their parameters in Eevee:

  1. Under render settings, try enabling VSM method and High Bitdepth under shadows section. (Also try enabling ambient occlusion and tweak its settings accordingly)
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  2. In your light object data (appears when you select your light) enable contact shadows and tweak its parameters according to your scene.
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  3. Adjust light intensity according to your scene.

  4. You can read what those settings/parameters do in the Blender manual.

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That seems to work well enough, thanks! I’m sure that I have a lot of learning ahead of me before I can understand much about rendering in either Cycles or Eevee. Here’s what I have so far - not a stunning work of art, but there are a few shadows.

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