Super ugly '' Minecraft '' style shadows

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Hi!

I have a problem with the shadows of my game, I hope someone can help me. I really don't know if it's a problem with the vanilla game or with my ENB. I use this ENB:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/70451

It's a really super annoying problem, a square shadow problem. But it only occurs outdoors, not indoors. Please see the screenshots:

Exteriors:
 

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It really ruins '' artistic '' photos:
 

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Interiors, there's no problem. Perfect shadows:
 

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I have followed these tutorials but nothing works for my game:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/148?tab=posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/3vn8wk/the_key_to_fixing_blocky_shadows_in_skyrim/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/3182216552773780335/

I did new tests when I was able to fix the ENB GUI not showing in my game. And the square shadows appear with the ENB turned off. Please see the screenshots: 
 

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Exteriors ... 

ENB on: 







ENB off:



Interiors no shadows problem ...

ENB on: 



ENB off: 

I hope someone can help me to fix those damn ugly shadows ...  ?

[Inquizit0r]

I do believe that its the shadows rendering distance causing this. If your shadow distance is very high, this will happen. Well, at least I think thats what is causing it, I might be wrong, but.....try lowering shadow rendering distance and see if it improves.

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3 minutes ago, Inquizit0r said:

I do believe that its the shadows rendering distance causing this. If your shadow distance is very high, this will happen. Well, at least I think thats what is causing it, I might be wrong, but.....try lowering shadow rendering distance and see if it improves.

Okay thanks. I will try it ... but exactly 'where' should I do that? 

[Inquizit0r]

I am quite unsure if I am correct, but....I THINK (no guarantee), that its the setting found in SkyrimPrefs.ini (If you use Mod organizer, that should be in its profiles folder), this specific setting:

fShadowDistance=10000.0000
 

Set it to 2500 and try if it worked. If it did, congratz, you found the source of the problem. And from there, you can start tweaking this number by increasing or decreasing it. If not, welp, I dunno.

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14 hours ago, Inquizit0r said:

I am quite unsure if I am correct, but....I THINK (no guarantee), that its the setting found in SkyrimPrefs.ini (If you use Mod organizer, that should be in its profiles folder), this specific setting:

fShadowDistance=10000.0000
 

Set it to 2500 and try if it worked. If it did, congratz, you found the source of the problem. And from there, you can start tweaking this number by increasing or decreasing it. If not, welp, I dunno.

But I already did it  ?

It is in the tutorials that I have posted in the first post and that I have followed, but the shadows don't change at all, no matter what number I put in that value. 

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14 hours ago, Inquizit0r said:

I am quite unsure if I am correct, but....I THINK (no guarantee), that its the setting found in SkyrimPrefs.ini (If you use Mod organizer, that should be in its profiles folder), this specific setting:

fShadowDistance=10000.0000
 

Set it to 2500 and try if it worked. If it did, congratz, you found the source of the problem. And from there, you can start tweaking this number by increasing or decreasing it. If not, welp, I dunno.

But yep ... I use Mod Organizer 2 ... Where is the .ini file there? Is it also '' virtual '' like the Data folder? ... because I'm just modifying the .ini file in My Documents / My Games / Skyrim 

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54 minutes ago, Sneaksmile said:

because I'm just modifying the .ini file in My Documents / My Games / Skyrim 

I don't use MO so I may be wrong but I think the ini files you want are in your profile folder as has already been said in fact.

 

15 hours ago, Inquizit0r said:

(If you use Mod organizer, that should be in its profiles folder),

 

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47 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

I don't use MO so I may be wrong but I think the ini files you want are in your profile folder as has already been said in fact.

 

 

I found it thanks.  ?

I will try to modify that file. It has the default settings ... dang ..   

[Sneaksmile]

Thanks for helping. I found the solution. I did not see any change when modifying the .ini because I was not modifying the .ini in my MO-2 Profile. I did not know that this configuration was also handled by MO-2.

Then, you don't have to change anything in the .ini, just change the parameter '' fShadowDistance ''. Reduce it until you find a good resolution of shadows. In my case I had to leave it at 2000, because below that appears like a waffle-style shadow effect all over the butt, and that's just as ugly as Minecraft-style shadows.

So ... shadows don't look as good as they look indoors but at least they're sharp and they're not just damn squares ... although in certain light conditions they really look perfect. So ... I can live with that.  ?
 

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THANKS!  ?