3 years ago

First Person Hand and Arm Dont Cast Shadows

Product: Battlefield 2042
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number RTX 3090
Enter RAM memory size in GB 32GB
Are you using any software with an overlay? Yes
If yes, can you list them here? Xbox Game Bar
If you disable this software, does that have any effect? No
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer
Which part of the mode? Conquest
Please select your region North America
On which server did this happen? NA
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) Always
Summarize your bug First person hand and arm do not cast shadows
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Launch a match
What happens when the bug occurs? First person hand and arm do not cast shadows
What should be happening instead? First person hand and arm should cast shadows

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No matter what quality level or filtering you use for shadows, the hand and arm do not cast any shadows on themselves or objects the player is holding, making them look very flat. This happens on all consoles as well from what I can see in gameplay uploaded to youtube.

This video is the best example. When at this angle, all light to the tool should be completely blocked by the arm/hand.

And here is another good one, when first dropping in you can see the hand and arm dont cast any shadows on the gun during the bolt pull animation, and the fingers also dont cast any shadows on themselves.

I noticed when the player dies and you're looking at the body, you can see there are no shadows cast onto the body itself from small items like the gear, the character's nose (onto their face) fingers onto themselves, etc, so this could be part of a larger problem of player models not properly casting small scale shadows (happens to other players/NPCs as well).

Oddly enough, it all seems to work fine on the character model in the MAIN menu, you can see everything is properly casting a shadow (including hands onto the weapon).

But once you go into the customization menu the issue comes back

If this is on purpose, it would be great to have a graphical option to enable ALL objects to cast shadows.

More examples with other weapons

EDIT: Noticed all the videos are way too small to see cause of the built-in video player, so here are MEGA links to all the videos in numbered order.

You can view them in the website without needing to download

1. https://mega.nz/file/PeAGjBIQ#nbbH59SEmzFD4OBrAsXN7GXAlWA6NLgmr-bU3h3ycSo

2. https://mega.nz/file/KPhQwSaa#6NvqCm6Ui4c6BSkX4jMOBBvy1iYdUa5GvXfAubgc2B8

3. https://mega.nz/file/qbx2mTSI#XoLlqY4_1B9lbnEylbUTDp5-EZ4ef76weeZ2FybacFU

4. https://mega.nz/file/qKB3DCoI#X0B7vTs_e4Dt5amexehyAJx4W9p1_32FK4D1wy3MWoA

5. https://mega.nz/file/WHoSFY6S#mDOKCKsThkm9obvTCcbaOalhpS7uccZR0v9zpxa8tqI

6. https://mega.nz/file/PXgGQTJA#4yTvdFann5wF9FEHZzR2V9W_NjFs6vAl1JYl5zZxO_4

7. https://mega.nz/file/rXoUDSib#A3egK4EX4WOThrA7QqPqNuPkGDqyOFb0OtTdYkQmrEg

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