Real CSM – Modern Lighting & Realistic Dynamic Shadows
Finally, a real cascading shadow implementation on the workshop. Either with automatic spawning or manual spawning
To use this spawn the CSM Editor located in "Entities > Editors" in the spawnmenu.
Quality settings (including soft shadows) are located in "Utilities > User > CSM" in the spawnmenu.
This will look the best on maps that have a named light_environment, but will still work on any other map. Try it on gm_construct! looks great!
Let me know of any other maps that work with it, i haven’t had time to go through any.
This is the Fastest and best looking implementation on the workshop. This addon is also designed to take up 0 resources when not in use, meaning it’s good for many use cases, no more constantly enabling and disabling addons!
Shout outs to Blueberry_pie for the original code, I just fixed it up and did some stuff to make look nicer and have it work on more maps, he’s the real brains behind this.
Make sure your shadow quality is set to high in your video settings
naming light environment will disable sun bounced lighting, this won’t look bad if you have lit your map correctly but I am looking for a way around this!
Any map that doesn’t work well with this isn’t something I can fix, ask the original mapper if they can update their map with a named light_environment!
Wanna help? chuck a PR here! https://github.com/Xenthio/RealCSM
https://github.com/Xenthio/RealCSM/issues
F.A.Q.
Stormfox 2 support?: play with the cvars csm_stormfoxsupport, csm_stormfox_brightness_multiplier and csm_stormfox_coloured_sun
CSM automatically on map load?: csm_spawnalways 1
Shadows are blocky and staircasy!: Raise the shadow quality either in the utility tab in the spawnmenu or by changing r_flashlightdepthres
Theres no shadows! the map is bright!: Make sure your gmod settings shadow quality is set to high
I can’t enable high shadow quality!: add "-force_vendor_id 0x10DE -force_device_id 0x1180" to your launch options
Is this Ray Tracing / RTX ?: No it isn’t, just your regular old projected textures.
Can this be put into Source SDK? Yeah someones already doing it! check out this github https://github.com/celisej567/Fake-CSM-Source-2013
Tags cause steam workshop search sucks: CSM, Cascading Shadows, Shadows, Graphics Enhancement, Graphics Mods, Realistic Lighting, Better Lights, Better Shadows, Realistic Shadows, Dynamic Lighting, Dynamic Shadows, HD GMOD, Realistic Garry’s Mod, Realistic Gmod, HD, Ultra realism, Scene building, Scene lighting, CSGO Shadows, CSGO Lighting, Counter Strike Lighting, Counter Strike shadows
