Shadow on ground but now onto mesh sitting on the ground?

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Anyone know how to make it so that I have more accurate shadows from ground and some onto the sides of a mesh?

Because the way it looks now, the meshes look like they are “floating” above the ground plane.

(cube with green ground plane = bad)

Using Unity 2021.3.19f1.
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by user 276719669878980608

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Changed the channel name: Shadow on ground but now onto mesh sitting on the ground?

by user 276719669878980608

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You can try with screen space ambient occlusion. It’s not built-in, but seems to be possible: Discord

by user 395602247196737546

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Or you could bake the shading into your cube’s texture. I don’t think dynamic lighting can give you the effect you’re looking for (and that’s why there are realtime trickeries like AO).

by user 395602247196737546

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You can also tune the shadow bias and offset settings, that will help. It’s scene specific (so the defaults can work well or not depending on your scene)

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Thanks @krizzl0r, @herbst🌵. I’ll give it a go this weekend.

by user 276719669878980608