[sldev] screen space ambient occlusion

[Karl Stiefvater]

always SO much negativity on this list!

the ssoa work is being done by a student as a part of the google  
summer of code program.  he's not "stealing" resources from anything  
else.

trust me - when done correctly - ambient occlusion increases realism.   
the technique was invented/discovered in the film "pearl harbor" and  
has been used in EVERYTHING since.  because it looks good.


K.

On Jul 26, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Argent Stonecutter wrote:

> I think you're on a better path with shadowing. Getting shadowing  
> right is better than trying to fake it with 'ambient occlusion'  
> hacks. They lead to unnatural shadows in corners that just scream  
> "computer generated" to me. That pile of box is showing a bunch of  
> examples of that. If you count two blocks across from the bottom,  
> there's three blocks on the ground leading away from the camera with  
> a fourth block on top of the third block. The lower left corner of  
> the front face of that block is visibly darker than the rest of the  
> block. In real life that face would be almost uniformly illuminated.