Hey!
I found this on the ReShade forums, can this be used to improve the ENB AO? The guy mentions that it can be used to do AO and other techniques with better precision and visuals, achieving the levels of actual AAA games.
There are no "levels of actual AAA games", everything is programmed by people, no some elites. So all effects used it "top" games not any better, mostly worse than ao in ReShade or in ENBSeries.
In general, voxels are not a solution, because you have worse performace and lose small details, the only positive factors of using them is reducing noise on things like fur, grass (and other vegetation) and for lit up bodies from environmental colors. People disable ssao in my mod often when play Skyrim, i'm sure they will not tolerate performance impact from using voxel cone tracing.
"People disable ssao in my mod often when play Skyrim, i'm sure they will not tolerate performance impact from using voxel cone tracing."
do you can have make option for disable this ?
"...voxels are not a solution, because you have worse performace and lose small details, the only positive factors of using them is reducing noise on things like fur, grass (and other vegetation) and for lit up bodies from environmental colors. "
do you can have mix this for you current SSAO code ?
Tbh I quite like really "spacious" (?) AO, too much detail and it looks weird from a distance, sort of the same problem I have with shadows that are too sharp, I mostly set them to lower res with a good amount of blurring (specially circular/jittering).
Also if SSAO imposes too much of a performance hit then it's not worth it IMO, it just doesn't do enough to justify it.
That being said, it'd definitely be interesting to see this in action in something like Skyrim under ENB, perhaps not worth it, but interesting nonetheless.
Nope, i still dont see anything special about using voxels for ao, except reducing noise on plants. There is no improvement in precision, on the contrary it's lower. Some time ago i have seen papers with comparison screenshots, there is nothing special worthy to make it. There are better algorithms to improve quality of lighting.
Better algorithms for lighting, not for ao (lightprobes f.e.). No matter how ao is computed, it's can't jump over visual limit of this effect and be better, user can't see unless compare.
