Okay, so Nils is going to hate me for this, but... Rayne is dead and will be open sourced...
Nah, just kidding (suck it, Unity!). But he implemented SAO and I'm going to show it off now because he is sleeping but FUCKING HELL IT'S BEAUTIFUL GOD FUCKING DAMNIT, I can't not share it.

I'm just glad I don't have to throw my own money at myself to buy Rayne. Yup, I'm that arrogant.





The last picture is here without the SAO, so you can tab between them and see the difference.

looks nice!

but ive got two questions:
- which resolution and how much samples per pixel were used for the ssao?
- what technique are you using?

- Fullscreen (1680x1050) and 11 samples... If I understand this code right. Fucked if I know, really.
- SAO

ah, okay thanks.
(I think Nils has to answer the second question (no offense :P))

just wanted to compare it to the ssao shader i've written in the past few days:
(beware of ugly grass lighting)


its using 6 samples at fullscreen resolution and a 4 sample blur filter.
(more samples are possible aswell, but at some point it just kills the framerate)

Actually, Sid gave you a perfectly good answer.... We use SAO, which is short for Scalable Ambient Obscurance: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/SAOHPG12/
It is pretty much plug and play and comes with an amazing quality but on the other hand my mobile graphics card doesn´t like it too much

ah thanks, looks interesting
( I just asked because I googled SAO ambient occlusion and couldn't find anything about it )

Aaaaaand it is time for our next weekly blogpost.

Uh didn't know that there were no shader files in OpenGL!

bigger screenshot of the tesselation tests please!

i am impressed by your skills and your engine.

i just don't like c++ so it would be really cool if there also were a binding to a scripting language later.