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Using shadows with directional lights isn’t really very difficult; the trickiest part is fitting the frustum around the scene, but Panda can do this automatically with 5 lines of code, see here:

Sample: using directional lights+shadows effectively

Using directional lights with shadowing can often be a stumbling block for Panda users. Fitting the frustum around the scene properly can be tricky. So here is a little sample program that shows how to use directional lights effectively. It includes a function that will tightly fit the frustum around the scene, for static, smaller scenes (press 1 to use it automatically). This is great for smaller scenes or where the light is static and there is no time-of-day, because it is slow to compute …