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Hi Guys,

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

Cheers,
J

Did you try increasing Area lights min/max recursions?

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. Some kind of bug I think. Deleting the light and replacing with an area light fixes that issue. Maybe it came from cloning the lights rather than creating them.. hmmm

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

Please try turning to "Custom" preset on Quality tab and then modify by hand area lights quality setting to min rec. 3, max rec. 4.

That does help. Though still not perfect..
Will investigate further.

So the banding at the top is still present though greatly reduced.
I can only assume the effect is coming from a long thin area light in the skylight.
Thanks for the input.
Jim