How do I blur realtime shadows?

Unity Engine
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My shadows have jagged edges even the soft ones. I think blurring them is the solution. But how do I blur them?

I am using the “Fantastic” quality profile yet they still look jagged.

I’m building for Android and iOS by the way.

I’m a beginner, I have tons of questions.

2

Three things are most likely to cause harsh shadows. Primarilly the shadow quality (both in quality settings & per light), then shadow distance, and in extreme cases, the size of the light that’s being cast.
What shadow distance are you using?

3

You need Unity Pro for soft shadows.

–Eric

4

I haven’t tried it, but here is a project for ‘soft’-ing shadows in Free/Indie:
https://github.com/unitycoder/IndieSoftShadow

5

About 80 - 150 meters.

My shadows also have this some kind of lines in them. They look like this: =========. Those lines are apearing everywhere.

I will try scaling the light.

6

I switched to soft shadows and increased the bias to 1 and it looked better, just some minor flickering now.

But I prefer to use hard shadows and blur them in real time because they costs lest than soft ones.

I will stick to soft shadows for now until I find a way to blur hard shadows

7

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8

Lmao looking back, I was such a noob before.

I learned with Unity 5 you can bake shadows.

Bake shadows of static objects like walls and structures and enable realtime shadows on moving objects.

9

Always nice to look back and see how far you’ve come :slight_smile: