Shadow LODs from Track fence

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  1. Rubinhofan

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    Hello,

    if you enlarge the picture you can see that the shadows from the fences suddenly disappear or change its LOD a few meters in front of the car. The graphical settings are on max. Is there a way to fix that? Track is Palm Springs
     
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  2. Drathuu

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    I believe its an optimsation applied to texture shadows (game engine). Effectively only calculates shadows throught the texture map out to a certain point so as to not kill the framerate.

    You can set the shadow out parameter in the GMT, however thats on/off and is done when building the track. (Thats how far away it doesnt draw the shadow at all). Not sure if a larger texture size on the texture shadow setting would change it (i dont beleive so). However that again is in the track building process.
     
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    Yes it would be great to improve this effect. Keep distracting me during racing sometimes
     
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  4. Rubinhofan

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    Ok, I have to check this effect on other tracks. If it is trackbuilding related, it could be avoided.
     

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