Hello guys,
on my journey implementing shadows in my engine i decided to use Variance Shadow Mapping.
Everything works fine (directional-, point- & spotlights) except there is this ugly “shadow-swimming”, when lights are moving/rotating in my scene. (- YouTube)
I dont know if this is a synchronization error in my code or if its a generally problem in shadow-mapping.
With higher shadow-map resolution the effect is less noticeable.
Hope you can help me to fix this problem, so i can finally finish shadowing.
Thanks in Advance 
If your projection matrices are dependent on the scene, light or camera position it is possible this is caused by the shadow maps shifting by a non-integer multiple of a shadow map texel with respect to your world. Say in frame N your shadow map is at a specific position in world space and in frame N+1 it has moved a little bit, but not by an entire shadow map texel, you get this shimmering effect along shadow edges. See e.g. dev DOT theomader DOT com SLASH stable-csm (sorry not enough posts to do proper links) for perhaps a better explanation and how to fix it.
Yes, i was aware of that and snap my lights already to shadow-map texel, so this swimming wont happen when the light/camera moves (with the light-frustum) around. The problem is that this “shimmering” happens when the lights rotate.