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I'm new to Blender, and I'm doing a very simple render using Cycles. As you can see in the image, I'm getting horrible faceting in the shadows on the sphere. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!

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prosckes
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  • Does this answer your question? -- https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/210817/shadow-problems-with-point-light-radius/210895#210895 – Allen Simpson Feb 11 '21 at 17:23
  • I posted a solution to this problem on yet another question: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/190050/66773 – HISEROD Feb 13 '21 at 17:23

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you need to increase the polycount of the ball, try subdividing it, either by right click in edit mode and subdivide, or using the subdivision surface modifier

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  • As it stands your answer could use a few more details. Could you expound why increasing the polycount is helpful or give a simple explanation of how to do the things you mentioned? – PGmath Feb 11 '21 at 19:05
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This was a major problem until Blender 2.90. There is now a feature just to solve this problem. In the "Object Properties" panel, under "Shading", turn up the "Shadow terminator" to cut out the face sets showing. Here's a GIF of how to do it: https://i.stack.imgur.com/zsKKk.jpg

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  • Yes, adjusting shadow terminator offset does fix the issue. And I see that the option only appears when using Cycles. But what a PITA to have to set that on an object by object basis. Would be nice if Cycles had a global value to fix the whole scene. Or better yet, fix Cycles to eliminate the problem entirely. I've never seen an issue like this in any other 3D application. – prosckes Feb 11 '21 at 20:23