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<p>What happened? Why are parts of the shadows missing?</p>
<p>The reason is shadow maps are created by rendering the scene from the point
of view of the light. In this case there is a camera at the <a href="/docs/#api/en/lights/DirectionalLight"><code class="notranslate" translate="no">DirectionalLight</code></a>
that is looking at its tar