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What is a 'soft' shadow?

• fingerlocks 3y ago
  I believe it’s a hard shadow with a three sigma Gaussian blur and smoothstep black-to-alpha with a one-half or three-quarter maximum, pre-multiplied to output. But I could be mistaken.
  • bitcharmer 3y ago
    This explains absolutely nothing to a layperson :)
• dharmab 3y ago
  You know how in real life the edge of a shadow is usually kind of fuzzy? "soft shadows" is the graphics technique to make in-game shadows fuzzy instead of hard-edged.
  • PrimeMcFly 3y ago
    Ah, thank you.