Questions tagged [ambient-occlusion]
Ambient occlusion is a rendering technique concerned with the measurement of the amount of ambient light reaching surfaces.
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Baked AO in Substance Painter shows dark lines along some convex edges
A default cube exported from Blender shows this issue(several vertical lines are dark) of baked AO in Substance Painter. I encountered this issue from texturing a model with a layer of dirt where I ...
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Correctly Implementing SSAO
I am trying to implement Normal-Oriented SSAO and i'm having an issue with the results. Portions of the screen are inverted/wrong, typically half way through the screen but not always, it seems tied ...
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How to import a texture to be used as occlusion map?
The same way normal maps need to be imported as "Normal map" in the import settings, how should I setup an Ambient Occlusion texture to correctly work? I've been searching around in the manual and ...
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Unity Ambient Occlusion not working with Orthographic camera
It seems like the Ambient Occlusion setting from the Unity Post Processing stack (obtained from the asset store) only works with a Perspective camera, yet I haven't ...
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Unity - Ambient Occlusion artefacts
When I create two cubes from Unity > Component menu. And turn on AO the bottom cube is not shaded properly. I mean the upper cube is alright but the bottom cube does not have any shadow present. What ...
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Unity's 'Ambient' Occlusion occludes everything. How to do it better?
I'm experimenting with custom AO solutions for Unity. While looking at the source for their built-in SSAO effect, I noticed the shader is doing this: ...
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SSAO issue - surfaces darken based on camera angle
I have a strange issue in my engine where my SSAO effect will extremely darken or lighten based on my camera angle: In that example, I'm just outputting the ssao texture to the screen. The texture is ...
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How can I do ambient occlusion for simple meshes with few vertices?
I want to do ambient occlusion for some simple buildings. Since simple buildings have very few vertexes, how can I get good results? Is it possible with a per-vertex AO implementation?
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