Unity Issue Tracker - Shadow Cascades are acting weird and are rendered differently when changing the View Position

Won't Fix

2023.2.X

2023.1.X

2022.2.X

2022.1.X

2021.3.X

2020.3.X

2019.4.X

The changes required to fix this involve breaking changes so it will not be backported to 2023.1. As a workaround you can mitigate the problem by using more tesselated geometry or increase the Light.shadowNearPlane property.

This issue is not a high user pain or regression. We will not backport the issue resolution to 2021. If you feel like this is a blocking issue for you project, please be welcome to add additional information so we can re-triage the issue and re-evaluate it's priority for a backport.

How to reproduce:
1. Open the attached project "ShadowCascadesIssue_3D"
2. Observe the Scene View by changing the View Position

Expected result: Shadow is displayed correctly and is rendered the same way not depending on the View Position
Actual result: Shadow is changing with the View Position; the more you zoom, the more parts of the shadow are missing

Reproducible in: 2019.4.38f1, 2020.3.36f1, 2021.3.5f1, 2022.1.5f1, 2022.2.0a18, 2023.1.0a1

Reproducible on: Windows 11 Pro

Note: The issue is reproducible in the 3D Project, but is also reproducible in the URP project. The behavior is different but the shadows are still changing depending on the View Position. The attached project "ShadowCascadesIssue_URP" shows this behavior.

Shadow Cascades are acting weird and are rendered differently when changing the View Position

Unity: Universal RP

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Shadow Cascades are acting weird and are rendered differently when changing the View Position

Unity: Universal RP

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Won't Fix

Resolution Notes

2023.2.XWon't FixThe changes required to fix this involve breaking changes so it will not be backported to 2023.1. As a workaround you can mitigate the problem by using more tesselated geometry or increase the Light.shadowNearPlane property.

2023.1.XWon't FixThe changes required to fix this involve breaking changes so it will not be backported to 2023.1. As a workaround you can mitigate the problem by using more tesselated geometry or increase the Light.shadowNearPlane property.

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