Higher quality textures and shadows in small area around characters

[coreychichi]

I've had this problem before with games. There is a small area around your character that renders textures and shadows in higher quality. It contrasts horribly with the areas borders. NOT an anisotropic filtering issue. Made a video that might show it better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dVJRo68dTo

 

[jafrankl]

Mixing and matching your shadows settings could change that. Upping the quality of the game will make that field of quality, just the way the game was built. It's a field of vision thing to make it feel more like reality; when you approach a shadow of tree leaves from a distance you see a blob, but closer defines individual leaf shadows.