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After some investigation it seems the issue is more pronounced with higher quality settings.
This is worrying, as I cant work out what is happening, and I dont really want to have to fix in post.

Thanks for any input.
J

Hi Jure, Thanks for the reply. When I set the preset to low, it looks fine. When I set it to bespoke preset it seems to band. Nothing special going on with the lights. I will investigate with a basic scene. I have noticed on a couple of occasions the area lights have rendered like spherical lights. ...

Hi Guys,

I keep coming accross this issue with area lights shadow banding.
Any ideas of the cause and how to fix?

Cheers,
J

I had an issue similar to this with LW renderer a couple of times. Once it was to do with overlapping polys, or polys not set up correctly for liquids in a glass (theres a few ways to approach this, but one correct one). The other time I had this 'effect' was when I had an env sphere for reflection/...

Thanks Janusz

Do you mean use SK Sky Light and SK Sun Light in concert?

Thankyou for the quick response Janusz.
This might be a good idea.... if render method is set to Photonmap, the PhysSky plugin is greyed out. Just so new users don't go down dead end roads. Just a thought.
J

Hi All, If you use photonmap method, I understand background illumination like a gradient or Sunsky won't work (probably as there is no way to point to them as items for Lightportals). My question is, how does Physical Sky interact with Lightportals? Are there methods to make a connection between th...