[Solved] can somebody tell me how to properly set the lightings for foliage?

[radomiro]

Im using the template "midday lighting" and "painted" some trees (then in the viewport the shadows from the trees casted very good), then I run a full build and besides it takes a lot of time (it was a few tress I dont want to imagine how much time an entire wood can take!!) well after that I entered to play (PIE) and can see that the shadows were almost a few grey lines... very sad:
see the attached image please, yes it seems like I should increase the landscape lightmass resolution or something is that the way you guys do it? Mister Epic dont you think it'll be a good idea to include in the ligthing template something that can fix this by default?
Thanks

[Xendance]

Increasing landscape lightmap resolution will make the shadows sharper. Note that increasing it will increase your build times a lot. If you have a big landscape, I'd use cascaded shadow maps.

[radomiro]

Increasing landscape lightmap resolution will make the shadows sharper. Note that increasing it will increase your build times a lot. If you have a big landscape, I'd use cascaded shadow maps.

but is'nt this landscape thing a kind of ready for this type o situations? or when landspace system was planned was not lighting been acounted? (sorry for my english).
Besides we arte talking about static lighting till now But if there is wind and I want the shadows of the trees move? (just like in that german "nameless" engine) is that posible?
has foliage system a kind of "impostor" solution?

[joshua.fontany]

Moving foliage w/ shadows requires dynamic shadows, which is what Xendance meant by cascaded shadow maps.

[radomiro]

thanks but exactly what should I change here? and how to deactivate ligthmass cast shadows only for the trees? Thanks

[radomiro]

SOLVED, i just set "whole scene dynamic shadow radius" to 500... that way when Im near (inside 500 units of course) the dynamic shadows appear, otherwise the precomputed (lightmassed) are visible.
Thanks.