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We know there are things that a big ECLD breaks and will always break. We're not going to advertise settings that break things. Such as? Tbh, I have to say I'm still skeptical about this. I've played through most of the original game now and large parts of Tamriel Rebuilt with it set to 4 and haven...

If your 1024x1024 shadow map was spread over the whole of Vvardenfell, each texel would be several metres across, and shadows would look absolutely awful. Instead, it's focused so it just includes what's currently visible. That means that if your camera is pointed such that more things are in the v...

akortunov wrote: ↑15 Apr 2020, 05:46

Time4Tea wrote: ↑14 Apr 2020, 23:18 The ability to set the actors processing range to >7168 would be nice.

This ability was intentionally blocked since it causes different kinds of issues.

Well ... I didn't mean to suggest it would necessarily be simple to do

Because then we'll get people complaining how badly OpenMW performs because the increased cell load distance putting more strain on the CPU, GPU, and memory. As it is, we've had people complain that 'vanilla Morrowind worked fine on ancient hardware, why does OpenMW perform worse on my less-ancient...

akortunov wrote: ↑15 Apr 2020, 14:21 By the way, your screenshots are seems to be malformed.

Yeah. I'm trying to add them as attachments, but they don't seem to be uploading properly, for some reason ...

(update: should be sorted now)

Screenshots: Here, you can see on the shadows in front of me - the edges look nice and sharp: https://leerstrobel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/shadow_good2.png Here, all I have done is turn the camera to the left, without moving the player, and the same edges are now much more 'blocky': https://le...

And/or, add the ECLD, view distance stuff, etc. into the graphics settings in the launcher 1. Viewing distance can be configured via in-game menu. 2. ECLD is for debugging purposes, not for gameplay, and can be dropped eventually since people tend to abuse it. 1. Yes, that is true. Fair point. Alth...

A default "shadow map resolution = 1024" is not enough for object and terran shadows. That might be the case, but I don't see how it would explain the behavior I am seeing, where the shadow edge resolution changes drastically depending on the camera orientation. I will take a couple of sc...

I agree, definitely. One of the first questions I had when I tried openmw 2-3 months ago was: "Why can't I see further than with the vanilla engine?". ECLD of 2 and a suitable viewing distance, with object shadows would make a good impression and probably be very playable for most people w...

The ability to set the actors processing range to >7168 would be nice. I was trying to set it to 15,000 the other day, before I realised there was a limit.