Shadows in Unity dont appear?

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Im almost a complete beginer to Unity and game development in general. I have the 4.2.1 free version. Im pretty sure version 4.2 allows shadows without needing pro.

I have tried adjusting the shadows in project settings/quality(edit-project settings-quality), making sure my objects cast/recieve shadows, used “soft shadows” with 1 strength, very high resolution, and 0.05 bias in the light settings.

I still dont see the shadow on the ground(it sort of appears on the object itself), so it appears as if the object is “floating”. I read there may be a conflict with Direct X or something, im not sure. I use Windows XP. Anyway, help would be much appreciated.

The shadows dont seem to appear on the game view or the finished product either.

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hey been through the same myself yesterday, wasted a couple of hours searching for a correct answer. But as it turns out simply closing the unity 4.2.1 and restarting it again helped… i don’t know if it is a bug but the shadows in my scene just disappear at times and as i said i just close unity and restart it to get the shadows back again… you can try that out too…

all the best!!!

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If I recall correctly, Unity Technologies allowed the free version to have only hard shadows, on one directional light. Soft shadows are not supported. If I recall correctly.