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Hi Asobo. I am trying to understand why light is bleeding through the dashboard. I checked to see if there are any openings and I can't find one. I also tried using the occluder material to block the light but it does not work. I'm definitely missing something here. Any idea what is causing this? Thanks
Hello @Sherv
The best you can do is have your shadow sphere encapsulate the area where you want to have good shadows. But your front panel should already be encompassed.
If this sphere is too big, this can also cause this kind of rendering artefacts as you loose precision.
Regards,
Sylvain
This is something we need improvement, on larger airplanes is almost impossible to avoid these bleeds with the shadow sphere.. are there any plans to introduce alternatives? large planes like the Airbuses / 747 ends up suffering from this either in the cockpit or the back cabin unfortunately..
Best,
Raul
Thanks Sylvain. To echo what Raul said below, is there a way to add a "Occluder" mesh to block the direct sun light from hitting a certain area? I don't think I can make the shadow sphere work in this case but I will try.
No there isn't. The shadow sphere is the only tool you can use for now.
That's something we want to improve in the future.
Regards,
Sylvain
This is something that's definitely in need of some love.
The shadow sphere doesn't really do a lot, esspecially in that tandem cockpit aircraft I'm currently developing.
There's some suggestions floating around like building the cockpit mesh fully watertight (doesn't help) and increasing the thickness of the cockpit walls (helps a bit), but nothing that really adresses the issues with sun bleed thru. Please pretty please put that on your to-do-list. :-)
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