Resolved High shadow filtering quality gives pixelated shadows

Hi!
I've been struggling quite a bit with my shadow quality where I had nice shadows and then suddenly now I have very sharp and pixelated shadows like you can see in the screenshot below

The very weird thing is that when I switch to low quality filtering I have smoother shadows?!


Now my settings in the HDRP asset are the following, I've read the blog post https://blogs.unity3d.com/2020/01/0...-render-pipeline-for-high-end-visualizations/ to set it up


Also, I've read that the angular diameter should influence the PCSS filtering too but its changes nothing at all

Finally the Unity version is 2019.3.0f6 with HDRP 7.1.8
Any idea where I'm messing something up?

 

Sure here are the settings of my directional light



I think everything is setup correctly, the Angular Diameter doesn't affect the softness of my shadows and Idk why even when I crank up the High Quality Settings

My volume settings for the shadows seems ok too like the splits should give the atlas enough resolution for my shadows to be fine

 

I'd start by upgrading HDRP: 7.1.8 has some bugs on PCSS which are fixed on later 7.x HDRP versions.

 

Setting it to Forward only didn't made the fix

I'll see with the devs if we can update the HDRP package to fix that PCSS issue

 

So upgrading to 7.2.1 fixed the PCSS issue but damn upgrading the hdrp will take ages as its going to import all fbx again and upgrade all the mats

 

Hello,

I am still having the problem of pixelated/poorly filtered shadows when using "High" quality filtering mode in HDRP, version 12.1.1. Medium and Low look much better.

Thanks

 

What fixed it for me was enabling TAA (don't forget to enable it for the scene view camera as well)

 

I see that the OP has these settings already tweaked, but in case someone, who comes here later, missed it: the reason for the immediate dip in shadow quality when switching to High Quality lies in the fact that there's now a new subsection in the Shadows section of the Light component. And not only its default settings are bad, to say the least, it is also hidden behind the More Options button, which is bound to confuse new HDRP users, such as myself, as I went through every possible shadow setting in the project, before accidentally discovering the presence of the button from this video:

The default values, set the way they were for some reason, made the shadows look jagged and pixelated and too harsh, but tweaking them was what solved it for me.