Shadows aren't working in URP

I am trying to get the ball cast a shadow on the ground in my game but it just doesn't work. I am using URP and Unity 2021.2.17f1 Here are my settings. What could be wrong?

URP Settings Asset




Light



Floor



Ball

 

1. Make sure the floor material has receiving shadows enabled (especially with custom materials). Also make sure you use urp lit or urp simple lit
2. Make sure that's the only directional light
3. Maybe increase the resolution and shadow draw distance?
4. Make sure you use the right quality tier

 

max shadow distance 10 units seems dangerously low.

 

It was 50 and still not working. I reduced it to 10. Player height is like 1.7 m and the ball never goes more than 5 m from the court so I was thinking 10 would be sufficient. I will set it back to 50 in any case to take that out of the equation for why its not working.

 

Maybe you can share a project / slimmed down version, just state of the scene without any scripts?
That would make finding out whats wrong certainly easier. Apart from that the 4th point DevDunk mentioned often causes issues because suddenly a different quality level is selected than expected and then nothing works.

 

Its a huge project since its a production VR game on Oculus but I will do the work to share it if needed. I found that floor materials didn't receive shadows checked. I have fixed that but it still doesn't work. I directional light seems to have no effect at all. If I turn it off there is no change in the lighting. So first step is to fix that somehow.

 

Fixed #1 but still doesn't work. Directional light has no effect in the scene which is wierd. Quality tier is ultra and has the right URP asset selected.

 

I saw a warning message in the attached png file. Do you mean that there's no lighting in scene view?

Maybe the lighting (light bulb icon) is disabled in scene view's toolbox.

 

Thanks all. The issue was that there is a setting in the light for shadows. It was set to "No Shadows". I changed it to "Hard Shadows" and shadows started working. I haven't tried "Soft Shadows" assuming those take up more resources.