The 30 FPS Lock in The Last of Us Remastered Enables ‘Higher-Quality Shadows In-Game’

[Zekkyou]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Zekkyou said:

Player shadows are often a much higher quality than those in the environment (which i expect is the area these shadow upgrades would be targeting). Objects with baked lighting are often an obvious exception, but the same can't be said for anything dynamically generated or animated.

To use FF14 as an example (since i'm waiting for the Duty Finder in it right now lol...):

Lowest shadow setting:
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Highest (4x quality over the lowest):
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The character does benefit from the higher quality shadows, but not nearly to the extent the environment does.

That's quite funny. The upper screen's shadows, while less detailed, actually look more realistic.

I agree With the soft shadow setting on (which i do in both), the LQ shadows become smooth enough that they look pretty realistic. Sadly, it doesn't translate as well into motion:

The worst thing about LQ shadows is how they look from a distance though. Their lower LOD versions ain't pretty '_'

Would be nice if the soft shadow setting was more aggressive with HQ shadows though. Get the best of both world.