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Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

by Lorne McIntosh · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 09/09/2008 (7:08 pm) · 114 replies

Hey everyone,

I've developed a Screen Space Ambient Occlusion shader pack for TGEA. It will apply real time ambient occlusion onto any dif, dts, or animating dts in your scene. Check out the video on my website. I'm selling the shader pack through my site to anyone who wants to have great looking ambient occlusion in their levels! Enjoy.

www.ubiqvisuals.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46%C2%A0

www.ubiqvisuals.com/images/ssao_sample.jpg
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Torque 3D Owner Lorne McIntosh
Ubiq Visuals Inc,

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    Torque 3D Owner Edward
    #101
    11/06/2008 (1:07 pm)
    Can we get this in the GG shop? This seems like a golden bullet for alot of nice shader things.

    Torque 3D Owner Lorne McIntosh
    Ubiq Visuals Inc,
    #102
    11/06/2008 (2:08 pm)
    @Picasso, Could you post a screenshot of this bug in action?

    @Edward, Yes! It will be in GG shop sometime (soon I hope).

    Lorne

    Torque 3D Owner Gareth Fouche
    #103
    11/08/2008 (11:05 pm)
    Wow! What a great pack!

    I bought it yesterday, 15 minutes to install, no hassle whatsoever. And look at the difference it makes! Objects in the scene seem to "pop" so much more. Thank you so much Lorne!

    Before and after shots :

    www.scarsofwargame.com/MyImages/GameImages/SSAO/screenshot_030-00000.jpgwww.scarsofwargame.com/MyImages/GameImages/SSAO/screenshot_030-00001.jpg
    www.scarsofwargame.com/MyImages/GameImages/SSAO/screenshot_030-00002.jpgwww.scarsofwargame.com/MyImages/GameImages/SSAO/screenshot_030-00003.jpg
    And the difference in rendering speed? 3 fps :D

    Lorne, I hope you are submitting a proper screenshot because I almost missed this thread and missed out!

    Torque Owner Stephan - viKKing - Bondier
    #104
    11/09/2008 (12:24 am)
    Quote:I bought it yesterday, 15 minutes to install, no hassle whatsoever. And look at the difference it makes! Objects in the scene seem to "pop" so much more. Thank you so much Lorne!
    Yes, the casted shadows are better - they were even missing in some cases before.

    BTW, Gareth we can now clearly notice the 2 lower barrels on the top picture are not properly aligned on the ground. ;-)

    Torque Owner Stephan - viKKing - Bondier
    #105
    11/09/2008 (12:24 am)
    Oops...
    Will this be compatible with the Mac (Open GL) port of TGEA?

    Torque 3D Owner Gareth Fouche
    #106
    11/09/2008 (12:50 am)
    *cough*

    Yes, I see that too.

    Torque 3D Owner Lorne McIntosh
    Ubiq Visuals Inc,
    #107
    11/09/2008 (12:56 am)
    @ Gareth: thanks for awesome screenshots! Glad to hear the performance improvements are working too :)

    @Stephan: we've been talking about making a version of the SSAO Kit for TGEA 1.8 (I assume this is what you mean). I think we'll wait until we see exactly how much things have changed in 1.8 (and thus how much work it will be) before we make a commitment to it though.

    Lorne

    Torque 3D Owner Helk
    #108
    11/13/2008 (9:04 pm)
    Lorne: Will you be updating the docs for merging into TGEA 1.8 any time soon?

    Torque 3D Owner Lorne McIntosh
    Ubiq Visuals Inc,
    #109
    11/14/2008 (1:47 am)
    Ah dang, you've noticed, hehe. Guess I'll need to get cracking... I'll let you know what we decide.

    Lorne

    Torque 3D Owner Helk
    #110
    11/16/2008 (7:40 pm)
    I could care less if it actually *runs* on a mac... but I'd like to see it supported in 1.8/GFX2 :>

    Torque Owner James Brad Barnette
    3Dmotif LLC
    #111
    11/17/2008 (7:28 am)
    Well kinda get one with the other

    Torque 3D Owner Helk
    #112
    11/17/2008 (2:59 pm)
    I wasn't sure if it was using HLSL shaders and it had to be done in GLSL or something like that...

    Torque 3D Owner Lorne McIntosh
    Ubiq Visuals Inc,
    #113
    11/19/2008 (5:16 pm)
    @ Helk

    We are planning to support Torque 1.8 DirectX when the final 1.8 build is released. However, GLSL (openGL) will not be supported right away. If there is enough request for openGL support then we may go that route.

    Torque 3D Owner Stephen Cook
    #114
    02/08/2009 (5:38 am)
    I bought the SSAO kit about 2 weeks ago.
    I have not been able to get it to render DIFF / Interior objects properly.
    I left a post on the creators website as well.
    I did not know about this thread before then.
    Anyway the Diff's render all grey and the main texture for them is not present. Perhaps someone could let me know where I might have went wrong?

    I have compiled with no errors. I am using VC 2008 Standard
    My system is a quad core 3.0Ghz with 8gb ram, Video is FireGL V7700.
    The TGEA was a fresh install before applying the SSAO kit.

    Thanks.
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