Is this possible with the GS?

Thank you

ambient occlusion mapping is pre-calculated and baked in any other software. use blender, bake ambient occlusion, and use ventilator's second uv set plugin to make use of it (or if the texture doesn't repeat, just bake it into the actual texture).

realtime ambient occlusion isn't feasible atm but i've been thinking through ways to simulate its appearance by a pp-effect, and if i ever find the time to sit down and do it i'll post here.

julz

how to create such a effect in blender?
...btw-I´m a blender-noob^^

Thx

For generating a Ambient Occlusion Map in Blender your Mesh needs a UV Map and a texture (a single-colored texture is sufficient).

Just open the Scene Panel (F10), click on the 'Bake' tab, select Ambient Occlusion and press the 'Bake' button and you are done.

I think screen space ambient occlusion is possible in 3dgs. The only problem might be that you need access to the scene depth, which I'm not sure is possible in 3dgs.

Here is an article about how they did it in the CryEngine 2: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1290000/...CFTOKEN=6184618

It's possible. But you have to use model-based levels, and render the sceen 2x. First render, have each model render it's depth, then pass this to the next render through the material skin.

I'd have to look up the details for SSAO. The computer I have access to don't support shaders, so I can't work on this


BTW: That was a great article, thanks

@Fenriswolf: Thx!