Ray Traced Distance Field Shadows, Tips Tricks, Unreal Engine

Ray Traced Distance Field Shadows enable you to generate highquality soft shadow effects using 3D, volume textures, which store the nearest surface to a mesh. They can be used to great effect when dynamic lighting is required, and are generally 25 to 50 faster than standard depthmapbased dynamic shadows. In this Unreal Tips Tricks video, we ll look at how to enable distance fields in a project, briefly discuss some ways to optimize them and go over the process of using them in a scene. For additio