Shadows Are Completely Incorrect For Layered Clothing

Bug Reports Engine Bugs
#1

Reproduction Steps
Not 100% sure how this issue is created, I think it’s just the current behavior of Layered Clothing in general. But in this file I have 3 clothing items, Pants, Left Boot, and Right Boot. Just fire up Play Solo and run around, you’ll immediately see the problem with the legs in your shadow, works with all avatars I’ve tested so far.

LayeredShadows.rbxl (57.3 KB)

Expected Behavior
I expect shadows to look correct for humanoids wearing layered clothing.

Actual Behavior
It looks like shadows for clothing covered objects are being calculated based on incorrect animation data. Having experience with rigs in the past, in the shadow, it looks almost as if the joints for layered clothing covered parts are inverted.

Workaround
Aside from disabling shadows I have no workaround for this.

Issue Area: Engine
Issue Type: Display
Impact: High
Frequency: Constantly
Date First Experienced: 2022-02-03 00:02:00 (-05:00)

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#2

After testing I did seem to find a new bug regarding your issue, So It is actually rendering your shadows in the wrong place oddly enough.

Here’s an image with both the Jacket and Pants with CastShadows enabled everything else is disabled but for some strange reason its rendering the pants overlaying the Jacket,

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Here is another example with the boots

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You can clearly see the suns position is not lining up with the shadows at all.
This is just data I’ve gathered personally that may help the engineers.

tldr; It appears UGC created layered clothing will sometimes render its shadows in the incorrect location. This effect does not seem to take place on Roblox created Layered clothing Items.

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#3

Wow your avatar’s feet must be enormous…

But yeah it’s weird that it would render differently for non-roblox created layered clothes.

#4

Actually this is being looked at rn.

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#5

I’d assume the wall still has CastShadow enabled as having a shadow cast onto a CastShadow disabled part is known to cast shadows incorrectly.

#6

Yes, the only things that are giving off shadows are the layered clothing and the wall.

#7

Thanks for the report! This is a known issue and the engineers are already working on a fix. We will announce when we will have an update!

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#8

Just chiming in to report this is still an unfixed issue as of 6/16/2022

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#9

Still unfixed as of 2022-07-11. It really is annoying me since I am someone who loves lighting and this hurts my brain to see. I am hoping this gets fixed.
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#10

Any updates on this? This is still happening as of 7/11/22, observe my leg shadows not rendering because of HSR :
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#11

No fix yet, but the issue is being worked on.

Will update the thread when the fix will be ready. Thanks for your patience!

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#12

There are still shadow bugs with Layered Clothing, despite @Focia19’s reply being 7 months old:

It looks like layered clothing is shrinking my character’s arms, for some reason.

#13

Still occuring as of 2nd March, 2023:

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Studio version: 0.565.0.5650363 (64bit)

Now you have to fix this because I went through all five stages of grief realising you can’t copy Studio’s version number from the About Studio menu.

Also, I just noticed this:

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Increase Range Limit of Lights
#14

Still occuring as of version 565 on 10th March 2023:

With layered clothing (white trench coat):

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Without layered clothing:
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The shadows of the arms look thicker and far better without the layered clothing trench coat.

Studio version: 0.566.0.05660545 (64bit)

The only reason I can think of for this not being fixed is that staff are deliberately avoiding any posts I bump because they despise how much better, handsome, and overall cooler my avatar is compared to theirs.

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#15

It has been so long since there was any update on this. I really hope this gets fixed soon as it bothers me so much

Update: I have been staring at it so much and it still bothers me. One of my games uses first-person bodies and I decided to make all local players have no shadows since the shadows are so broken

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(Notice the shadow on the boxes and the lack of shadow for the character)

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#16

Experiencing this issue as well but much worse. This shawl casts massive shadows

https://gyazo.com/e80f71d0f4625d5c28c8c4a0fd59b9c8.mp4

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#17

FWIW, and my apologies, I should have update this thread earlier…

Thank you for reporting this, we are looking into this and this will likely be resolved soon.

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#18

This is still occurring as of 572.

With layered clothing:

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Moving layered clothing to ReplicatedStorage/deleting it:
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As you can see, the shadow of my character’s arms look “fuller” and thicker without the layered clothing, but look like sticks with it.

Here is a repro file:

LayeredClothingBugRepro.rbxl (152.6 KB)

#19

@TigerRabbit2 pls update

(28 days later)
EDIT 26/05/2023: CDDevelopment it looks like the main issue was fixed:

Before:

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After:

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According to maximum_adhd, this happened just over 2 weeks ago:

https://twitter.com/MaximumADHD/status/1656189039744000005

I know I’m late… but I like bug reports that were fixed to have the “Solved” checkmark…

#20

Unfortunately, although the code for this has been fixed for over a week, we are still waiting for QA to test it, to make sure it doesn’t cause other averse effects. This is planned to happen tomorrow, after which we will flip the flag and it will instantly fix the issue in live clients.

I hope this helps, and thanks for being ‘on-the-ball’ on this issue.

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