Umbra Soft Shadows - Better Directional & Contact Shadows for URP

Get realistic, cinematic shadows in URP: sharp where objects touch, soft and diffuse in the distance, exactly like real life. Umbra Soft Shadows upgrades Unity's directional light shadows with contact hardening and adds contact shadows for the fine details URP normally misses.

⭐ Nominated for Best Artistic Tool in the 16th Unity Awards. Unity 6 compatible.

The result: more believable, immersive scenes, without rebuilding your lighting. Combine powerful soft shadows with contact shadows and your environments instantly feel grounded and physically real.

** Key features **

• Contact Hardening: customize the shadows to look crisp near the shadow casters while smoother at the distance as in real life.
• Contact Shadows: get shadows for all small details without compromise, either at close or at far distances. Combine it into the resolved shadow texture or render it as a separate pass. Contact Shadows can be configured for the directional light and also for point lights.
• Configurable Shadow Appearance: Adjust the look and smoothness of shadows to achieve the desired visual style for your project.
• Stylized Shadows: now you can texture the shadows or create a posterization effect when using blur (great for toon style).
• Cascade Blending: Achieve smoother transitions between shadow cascades, reducing noticeable edges and enhancing overall visual coherence.
• Profiles: Easily store settings in profile assets which can be easily swapped or set at runtime.
• Optimization Options: Advanced options to improve performance such as loop and frame skip optimization which allows reusing of shadow map texture from previous frame.
• Transparent Receiver Plane for XR: Includes a custom shader made with Shader Graph that supports soft shadows rendering on a transparent plane/ground commonly used in XR applications. Demo scene included.

** Easy Installation **

Umbra is very easy to setup and use. Import the package, add the Umbra Render Feature to the URP and the Umbra Soft Shadows script to the Directional Light you want to enhance. That's it.

Documentation and a demo scene are included with the asset.

Elevate the realism and visual quality of your Unity projects with these enhanced shadow capabilities, providing a more immersive and dynamic lighting experience.

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Umbra Soft Shadows is included in our Visual Fidelity Pro, Visual Fidelity Ultra and Ultimate Bundle. You can buy Umbra Soft Shadows now and later upgrade to any of these bundles with a discount.

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