Grid/Grainy Shadow on Character

[leros]

Ok, as the title said I have this strange issues with my shadows (particularly on char)

 

Here some screenshots with and without ENB (Natural View Tamriel (NVT) ENB with NAT) 

Spoiler

 

What I tried to do was:

• Disable SSAO (via Skyrim launcher and Bethini) - Doesn't Worked
• Add iBlurDeferredShadowMask=6 to my Skyrimpref.ini - Doesn't Worked
• Change the Shadow Bias to 1.00 from 0.30 - Doesn't Worked

 

Now I restored the Default Skyrim INIs and I'm out of Ideas

 

Can someone tell me something else to do?

[ilya lysse]

I can't tell ou what to do but your first and second pictures clearly look like a biais issue to me. What its change to 1.00 from 0.30 do ?

 

Have you tried with the others shadow qualities ?

[leros]

something I just noticed is even if I change the value for the Shadow Bias in BethINI, I still don't see the fShadowBiasScale entry or any Bias related entries in the SkyrimPref.ini

 

Should I try add those line manually to the SkyrimPref.ini? Should I go Higher or lower?

 

Anyway yes I tried changing the resolutions of the shadows from 1024 to 2048 to 4096, and still nothing change

[leros]

ok I just installed Skyrim SE on another Pc (without any mod) and it giving me the same problem...I'm wondering if that is not a bug and shadow are just like that in SE...?

[Molokkx]

Might not be the same thing, but in my case I had a 'grid'-like shadow effect on my character's textures; and I could see the actual shape of the polygons in some places.

 

It turned out to be caused by Ambient Occlusion, which Skyrim simply does not support at all. Be it with ENB, or added from ReShade instead, they both produced that horrible grid shadow effect on my characters (and NPCs, too). It does look good, however, for the general environments; but the issue was plain and simple inevitable it seems on characters.

 

If it's not caused by Ambient Occlusion in your case then I'm not sure what else it could be.

 

In my case, I'm using NAT + PRT presets (PhotoRealistic Tamriel ENB presets to be used in conjunction with NAT).

 

In my ENB, I disabled Ambient Occlusion (disabled in my ReShade too). And in NAT's menu in-game I also disabled NAT FX, and I'm running the 'default' weather parameter. In my SkyrimPrefs.ini I have bDeferredShadows=1, iBlurDeferredShadowMask=0, iShadowMapResolution=4096, and SAO is disabled.

 

That's what I can think of so far. I find my shadows in the game so far to be "normal", there's no shadow 'artifacts' or grainy effects that I can notice (at least not so far).

 

However, one thing to note, that in my case I do not use any "lightning overhaul" type mods. I only have NAT + my preferred PRT Preset (select just one at a time, drag and drop to the enbseries folder, that's it; just need to install ENB itself first, of course). Oh and on a side note, PRT presets simulate cameras of many types. They produce a lot of visual effects on-screen at the same time for that (film grain, cinematic black bars, aberration, etc). Those effects can be turned off via ENB options of course (that's what I do myself, right now I'm using the 'Fantasy' setting but with my own adjustments thrown in).

[papa emeritus]

Look here, maybe that helps

 

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/97391-how-to-remove-pixilated-shadow-on-character-npc-100fix/

 

[leros]

8 hours ago, Molokkx said:

Might not be the same thing, but in my case I had a 'grid'-like shadow effect on my character's textures; and I could see the actual shape of the polygons in some places.

 

It turned out to be caused by Ambient Occlusion, which Skyrim simply does not support at all. Be it with ENB, or added from ReShade instead, they both produced that horrible grid shadow effect on my characters (and NPCs, too). It does look good, however, for the general environments; but the issue was plain and simple inevitable it seems on characters.

 

If it's not caused by Ambient Occlusion in your case then I'm not sure what else it could be.

 

In my case, I'm using NAT + PRT presets (PhotoRealistic Tamriel ENB presets to be used in conjunction with NAT).

 

In my ENB, I disabled Ambient Occlusion (disabled in my ReShade too). And in NAT's menu in-game I also disabled NAT FX, and I'm running the 'default' weather parameter. In my SkyrimPrefs.ini I have bDeferredShadows=1, iBlurDeferredShadowMask=0, iShadowMapResolution=4096, and SAO is disabled.

 

That's what I can think of so far. I find my shadows in the game so far to be "normal", there's no shadow 'artifacts' or grainy effects that I can notice (at least not so far).

 

However, one thing to note, that in my case I do not use any "lightning overhaul" type mods. I only have NAT + my preferred PRT Preset (select just one at a time, drag and drop to the enbseries folder, that's it; just need to install ENB itself first, of course). Oh and on a side note, PRT presets simulate cameras of many types. They produce a lot of visual effects on-screen at the same time for that (film grain, cinematic black bars, aberration, etc). Those effects can be turned off via ENB options of course (that's what I do myself, right now I'm using the 'Fantasy' setting but with my own adjustments thrown in).

Thx for tour reply, but since I tried everythings already, yesterday I completly remove skyrim and reinstalled from scratch and the problem seems to remain.

 

Even with vanilla Skyrim SE I still have the issue

Spoiler

As you can see on her lower hips, the shadow looks like crap