I was asked to help with a Unreal project. That project has an issue with shadows from any tree. When the player is close to the shadow from that tree and moves around the shadow will change its shape. It becomes bigger or smaller depending on the direction you are looking.

Let me explain how trees are implemented. Each tree consists of a static mesh that represents branches and a static mesh that represents the canopy of the tree. Static mesh for the canopy has a material that replaces static mesh with many billboards that are leaves of the tree. It looks nice and easy to change because by changing the static mesh of the canopy you are changing the

I think every one of us can tell that AI is very dumb sometimes. Sometimes it outputs just utter nonsense or in simple terms - garbage. Sometimes it is smart and very helpful and sometimes it is as dumb as a chair.

For example, one day I asked AI about a book written by a specific author, but I didn’t remember the name of that book. Then AI said that the name of the book is “Wolf and Tractor”. It looks quite strange, especially if you take into account that the author died in the 18th century and there were no tractors in at that time.

And yes, I double-checked the internet because there was a chance that the word