shadow quality

[Thecitykeeper 0]

my shadows on my game are so fake... like in this pic ( this is a city that i was pplaying in)

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/226/fieldaaug14211381538937af.png

but in like this pic the shadows are perfect, shows every space between trees and cracks and stuff, is there a mod that makes the shadows better?


(picture from Yoman3 in his CJ United Republic of Ankara)

[Swamper77 90]

The City Keeper,

Turn the shadows setting to "High" under "Display Settings" in the Options Menu (...)

Be warned that the game will use more memory to display the crisp shadows, so your game may become slower (more lag).

-Swamper77

[Thecitykeeper 0]

my shadow is High accually everything is high in the graphic menu, and the shadows keep coming out the same way, it looks smudged on the edges like in my pic

[Canadian Mind 1]

Most shadows look like that from the air at 10 in the morning or 4 in the afternoon eh. They arn't as neat and crisp as you see them from gound level.

[zane900 1]

Shadows are different at different times of day. Maybe Maxis concord shadows for one prt of the day, but only got so far in making the shadows for another part of the day perfect.

[Thecitykeeper 0]

i think it has nothing to do with the time of day because my shadows are the same all the time, doesnt change angle, darkness doesnt change, even at night it doesnt change, and a shadow for a subalbine looks like a big ugly square shadow, when the tree is like a cone shape...

[Thecitykeeper 0]

i think it has nothing to do with the time of day because my shadows are the same all the time, doesnt change angle, darkness doesnt change, even at night it doesnt change, and a shadow for a subalbine looks like a big ugly square shadow, when the tree is like a cone shape...

[Alkaola 18]

you are all so wrong .... this problem has way nothing to do with settings on '' high'' or what so ever

it's all about '' HARDWARE '' or '' SOFTWARE''

you can render it on hardware and software

software - shadows are crappy

hardware- shadows are good

at least this is my expierence with this problem

[Thecitykeeper 0]

Alkaola you were right, i was on software the whole time -_-' i didnt even think to change it to hardware, thx

[Arrow 0]

I just wish ATI graphics cards didn't have so many performance issues with the shadows on trees in SimCity 4.

[prince_of_sims 0]

they don't. must be some setting you have on yours.

[Jordanmac 0]

I had the same problem. On my old 6 year old computer the game showed the cruddy shadows, but when I installed SC4 on a newer, better computer I got the normal shadows instead. So, the shadow quality might depend on your computer or hardware.