Weird "ghost" shadows/broken lighting

[boosos999 (rab)]

dont know where i should put this, so i put it here
for some reason, random shadows come from nowhere
if i put a new light, they also dont effect the shadows

this is what it looks like, this is NOT supposed to look like this
i really have no idea how to fix this

heres a list for what i have done:

• moving the room
• removing the light’s “Shadows” property, still appears for new lights
• removing the light altogether, still appears for new lights
• removing the union that the glowy part is below, didnt work (removed them in the image, thats why you dont see them)

i cant change the ambient, i need dark spots in my game
also, please be kind im not good at this
tell me if you need more info and the such

i dont know how to reproduce, its just randomly started happening and wont go away

[boosos999 (rab)]

heres another picture, but ingame. the entire room is supposed to be lit up

[Gucci_Dabs222 (Euphorian)]

Is the issue the actual neon part maybe? If not, try iterating through all the objects in the room that might be causing this and see if there are any changes in shadows.
Also try changing the type of light you’re using (pointlight,surfacelight,etc.)

[mena5555 (Blaze)]

I’ve had this same issue, it seems to be a studio bug, I managed to eventually fix it, but I’m not quite sure how, I turned off global shadows in my game eventually, because it was simply breaking the game, it made like streaks/lines of shadows across my entire map, I tried to make a dev forum but I’m pretty sure I wasn’t allowed yet. One day I turned global shadows back on, and then it fixed. I can try to help you out with this, because for a short period of time I was studying what it was exactly causing it.

[mena5555 (Blaze)]

I had this same issue once, and even sunlight was breaking it, I’m 100% sure it was an issue with the part casting the shadow itself, because when I spawned a new part, the shadows were completely fine, it was extremely buggy though, and even when I deleted the problematic parts, there were still those shadows.

[boosos999 (rab)]

seems not to be global shadows, this still happens (me pointing a flashlight at the locker ingame)

[mena5555 (Blaze)]

I didn’t notice that, my map was outside and I hadn’t added any lights, but it seems to affect all shadows. With more testing it’s likely we can find out the exact cause that is making this happen.

[TheWallpaperKing]

Hey if the issue is a flashlight, there is a chance that it is getting the arms or accessories of the player and shadowing them

[boosos999 (rab)]

it just randomly fixed itself? idk, after a bit i went to the game and it just fixed
sorry to the future people that also get this bug, idk how to help you

[mena5555 (Blaze)]

Tbh I’ve got no idea, I only had natural light in my game, and the same glitch was going crazy on all my parts, just fixed itself, the same way his did, couldn’t find anyone else with this issue on the dev forums, this was about 1 - 1.5 months ago.