Alexis Kiyori Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Hi all.. I'm trying out Black dragon but for some reason the background is super fuzzy and pixelated... any idea how I can fix it? I've gone through all the settings and fiddled with everything.. not entirely sure what I'm doing truth be told.... TIA ❤️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 No idea if this applies to Black Dragon (let alone shadows) but the description sounds like "Depth of Field" which is an advanced graphics preference, wherever it can be found in that viewer. Try turning that off and see if it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Kiyori Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 20 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said: No idea if this applies to Black Dragon (let alone shadows) but the description sounds like "Depth of Field" which is an advanced graphics preference, wherever it can be found in that viewer. Try turning that off and see if it helps. Yup, I already have that option unchecked >.< 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 57 minutes ago, Alexis Kiyori said: Yup, I already have that option unchecked >.< Try changing the intensity and focus of your lighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyndka Cochrane Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 It might also be an "SL thing" that detailed shadows aren't rendered? It would be one way of keeping the render queues short by only rendering "real" objects fully but not so for shadows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 8 minutes ago, Lyndka Cochrane said: It might also be an "SL thing" that detailed shadows aren't rendered? It would be one way of keeping the render queues short by only rendering "real" objects fully but not so for shadows? I just did a couple pics today with extremely sharp shadows. Using Firestorm and not BD, though. I changed the focus and intensity of the light source and I was pretty impressed with the results. 4 hours ago, Rowan Amore said: So I grabbed the lighting thingie from @Orwarthat was mentioned in another thread and was playing around with shadows 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 18 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said: I just did a couple pics today with extremely sharp shadows. Using Firestorm and not BD, though. I changed the focus and intensity of the light source and I was pretty impressed with the results. That's pretty great, really. The OP isn't lookin' so good, though, and I don't know why. (Is it only shadows?} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said: That's pretty great, really. The OP isn't lookin' so good, though, and I don't know why. (Is it only shadows?} I always had that same issue with shadows until today. Photo tools No Light WL setting and the light prim. Edited June 18, 2021 by Rowan Amore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aishagain Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I may be completely off the target with this thought but is this issue not simply a measure of the shadow quality set in the graphics rendering options? That's what it looks like to me, at least. Your GPU may also have an impact on how well or badly shadows are rendered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiranV Dean Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) On 6/18/2021 at 7:02 PM, Alexis Kiyori said: Hi all.. I'm trying out Black dragon but for some reason the background is super fuzzy and pixelated... any idea how I can fix it? I've gone through all the settings and fiddled with everything.. not entirely sure what I'm doing truth be told.... TIA ❤️ These look a lot like projector shadows which are controlled by projector shadow resolution found in Preferences - Display - Deferred Rendering Note that projector shadow resolution also depends on the projector light field of view, higher field of view means a larger area covered which cuts into precision. The other thing you see here is shadow softening, i assume thats what you mean with fuzzy, the shadows are being softened (like all shadows and lighting), due to BD using a different softening kernel the softening is different (better for normal shadows but a lot stronger for projector shadows), softening is controlled by the light softening option also found in the Deferred Rendering group. Note that turning down light softening as implied will turn down ALL softening, this may include SSAO, light, shadows (both sun and projector) and possibly more. Edited June 21, 2021 by NiranV Dean 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Kiyori Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 I think I may have confused people (apologies, my wording is not the greatest..) I'm not fussed about the shadows being pixelated, my problem I'm having is the actual fuzzyness with the purple and green lines in the bakcground, they shouldn't be there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiranV Dean Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 On 6/22/2021 at 8:36 PM, Alexis Kiyori said: I think I may have confused people (apologies, my wording is not the greatest..) I'm not fussed about the shadows being pixelated, my problem I'm having is the actual fuzzyness with the purple and green lines in the bakcground, they shouldn't be there Oof that looks like horrible texture artifacting, make sure you do NOT have OpenGL 3.0 Texture Compression enabled in Preferences - Display. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Kiyori Posted June 27, 2021 Author Share Posted June 27, 2021 On 6/25/2021 at 6:27 PM, NiranV Dean said: Oof that looks like horrible texture artifacting, make sure you do NOT have OpenGL 3.0 Texture Compression enabled in Preferences - Display. Hey, that fixed it, thank you so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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