Graphics | Near Clipping Planes of 0.01 cause visual artifacts in Lightrange (zbuffer)

Hi,

Near Clipping Planes of 0.01 cause visual artifacts if the cam is placed in any light range.
> 0.01 did not. It's not an heavy issue but if you got it, it's good to know why.

 

And I got Hard Edged Shadows only, not matter of setting soft shadows enabled.

 

That's a really close near clip plane. With 1 unit = 1 meter, that's a clipping plane of 1 centimeter.

Z-buffers are non-linear - they give more resolution closer to the camera (with the idea being that things that are closer to you should be more accurate. So with a near clipping plane of 0.01, you're concentrating all the resolution really close to the camera, and starving everything else. It's always good practice to push the Near Plane out as far as your game will allow.

 

But that's partly the change in 5.5 - to give a more linear zbuffer with decent resolution from close to far.

 

I stand corrected. I would note however, that this only increases the resolution, doesn't give it infinite resolution, and is only supported on DX11+ and Metal.

 

Unfortunately, point light with soft shadows it's like this, just a couple of stacked hard edged shadows.
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/point-light-pixelated-shadows.377818/#post-2463862