How to create soft shadow

[pseandersson]

Hi,
I have been using filament for a while, and now I want to achieve a soft shadow effect on a shadow capture plane. I have tried downsample the shadow map but the quality of the downsample map is too bad.

Does filament support softshadow/arealight and how do I achieve it with the android apis?

Kind regards
P

[romainguy]

VSM shadows will allow for softer shadows once we add the blur option, which is planned. @bejado

Otherwise you'd have to generate your own projected shadow using render targets for instance.

[pseandersson]

I have tried using VSM shadows, but unfortunatly they did not work with my shadow catcher. Perhaps I set up something wrong in my ModelView or are they not supported right now? I wonder also if you have a roadmap for VSM which one can look on?

[bejado]

VSM doesn't currently support shadow catchers, but it's on our backlog of features to add.

[bejado]

The shadow catcher fix has been merged into main.

[pseandersson]

Great! Thank you!