SSAO Pro - High Quality Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion

@RodneyO
Maybe it's the time for open a thread on this forum.

 

thanks for the suggestion ZJP. I have one up now.

I think i now know why that stuff wasn't drawing properly. I think SSAO uses depth to figure its stuff out (correct me if I'm wrong Chman)

Unoshader doesnt use this tag Lightmode = "shadowcaster" unless you turn shadows on. This tag also helps figure out depth without it SSAO breaks.

So Dan the fix attached earlier works but now all unoshaders are trying to calculate shadows which is generating an extra 2 drawcalls per object (not good) Roll back to the original file and just turn on shadows on the objects that will be in combination with SSAO. Does that make sense?

 

@Chman I was wondering is it possible to show the AO only on specific gameobjects, or is it all or nothing? The reason being is that for the project I'm currently working on they want a tour of a building with the AO effect on, everything white with black outline/shadow, but they'd like for a few objects within the building to be highlighted red. Is this possible with the SSAO plugin?

 

You understood my question correctly. In Unity 5, is it better to use the legacy unlit shader, or try to use the standard shader?

 

Doesn't this asset support soft particles? Soft-particles setting is ignored when I turn this effect on.

 

Thanks for reply, I use 4.6 with deferred rendering, linear color space.
If I disable SSAOPro on inspector, soft-particles properly work.

 

Hi,
Is it possible to display the 'SSAO (black and white) with objects (placed in a layer) that would keep the 'colors'. I mean detach characters from the black and white background 'ssao'. A sort of 'Highlight'.

Désolé si mon Anglais est confus. Je pense à une option qui permettrait d'isoler les/des personnages (par exemple) dans un rendu ou l'on afficherait le SSAO de la scène.

Exemple : les tonneaux au sol sur cette image conserverait leurs "couleurs".

 

Thanks for the reply.

Désolé, je n'avais pas vu la réponse au dessus. Ma demande est une pure coïncidence.

 

UseHighPrecisionDepthMap-off makes an error occurred in "Graphics.Blit", so I edited the source code and it works!
Thanks!

 

Regarding the Radeon grid-of-dots bug. Am I correct that that's still known to be happening in the latest version of SSAO Pro (I just updated and still see it on a Radeon card)? Also, as a data point, it looks to me like it ONLY occurs when Downsampling != 1. It also appears it only happens on the part of the screen nearer than Max Distance, which is perhaps not surprising.

 

Two more questions:

1. When I don't use HighPrecisionDepthMap in Unity 4.6, following error is occured: "Invalid pass number for Graphics.Blit" at SSAOPro.cs line 320. ( line 375 change causes an error ) Also it says "Shader error in 'Hidden/SSAO Pro V2': Can't open include file "SSAOPro.cginc" at line 130, 164" but I don't know it's related to this error. How I can off HighPrecisionDepthMap?

2. I noticed SSAO Pro doubles Draw Calls in my scene; as if static batching is not worked. Does it cause a strike on my game performance?

 

Hey there, I'm just having some flickering issues with SSAO Pro on grass for terrain, occasionally it will just ignore grass. I've done some rudimentary searching but I can't seem to solve this issue http://puu.sh/hT8bt/1055187337.png . My max distance is 150 and my falloff is 50.

 

It's Unity 5, currently the custom grass shader on terrain. That will probably be changing in the future (the terrain system), so if you think that will solve the issue I can wait until then.

Edit: This appears to definitely be an issue with grass in unity 5 as shadows will occasionally be drawn through the grass (on objects through the grass) in the same problematic areas for the SSAO. Great job on the SSAO btw, it's exactly what I needed for my stylized game.

 

Why would 5.1 fix it?

 

>Did you moved SSAO Pro to a subfolder ?
Exactly I was. I refreshed source files and both questions are cleared.
Thanks for rapid reply and great works!

 

Following the previous comments about incompatibility with the Oculus Rift, has there been any changes on that? Is it still not suitable for VR?

 

Hello Chman,

I apologize in advance for my bad English I'm French!

Firstly your plugin is just huge and treatment is beautiful!

I come to you because I have a problem I can not solve despite my settings and paths in the forums about this.

I made a screen capture of my problem so that you can understand.
I have a "flag" that I wish to animate (cloth) which is simply a plan created in 3ds max with his bones.
I can not apply in my case two planes with normals reversed since the goal is to make it float with the wind and if I make two planes they will never synchronized in their animation. A shell on the model does not fix the problem either.

My only solution seems to me so it is to make a plan simply.


I will accompany my screen capture with a v ideo to support my problem: http://izegames.com/prob/normals_SSAO-pro.mp4

I actually uses Shader Forge but I tried with any shader I get the same rendering. In the video I present the same problems with a standard shader Unity5

I know that these are the normals that cause this problem but I look for a solution in my situation

Thank you for the time you will grant me

Best regard
Jimmy B.

 

Comme lui...

 

Hello Chman,

Have you had this working with two camera splitscreen with ssao on each camera? (deferred on each)

It keeps crashing unity 5.1. the same happens with Unity's version too.

 

Hi Chman,

For your answer!
I'm going in your direction, and unfortunately I did not find the solution because I use most of the opportunities you offer.

Here are below the configuration in 3ds max my shader:


Here is the shader forge configuration (I nétoyé everything else and let the texture):


I still got a good result by doing this: Custom blendmode / Minus One Alpha Dst

The big problem with this setup is that I no longer received the shadows


Hoping that you will find a solution thanks to new settings and images.

For other if the shadow on your reception elements is not an obligation, and my settings image2 work well!

Thank you in advance
2pass

 

I do not understand this question:

I use well CullOff:

 

^^ I understood now the camera is on Forward!

 

I do not need my shader is transparent. I can very well do the same with an opaque shader its not working either.

I tried with Deferred and its not working anyway!

 

after many hours of stress, I now no never to have a 3d object with no material in my scene. That was causing the game to crash when playing in build. I never knew something so small could cause this much problems.

Do you think I should submit a bug report? or is that expected.

 

Chman,

I you're sent to my private message szene history to save time in our exchanges.

Thank you in advance of the time you will give

 

IMO, it wouldn't hurt to submit it. Stuff like that could be detected and handled better, at the very least. Right?

 

Unity 5.1.0f3 Pro

Updated SSAO Pro to 1.5. We're using deferred rendering path.

Invalid pass number (6) for Graphics.Blit. Material=Hidden/SSAO Pro V2, npasses=1
UnityEngine.Graphics:Blit(Texture, RenderTexture, Material, Int32)
SSAOPro:OnRenderImage(RenderTexture, RenderTexture) (at Assets/Third Party/SSAO Pro/Scripts/SSAOPro.cs:339)

Tried forcing UseHighPrecisionDepthMap, but had no effect.

 

Deleted the old copy, pulled a fresh version, works now. Thanks.

Correction: now when I restart Unity, receive the following warning and the component is disabled on the camera:

Unsupported shader (SSAO).
UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning(Object)
SSAOPro:Start() (at Assets/SSAO Pro/Scripts/SSAOPro.cs:188)

Tried deleting and downloading again. Receive the API Update Required dialog again. Works. Save scene and restart Unity. Ok, seems to have calmed down now and is working. Perhaps doesn't like be relocated out of the root to another folder.

 

Is there any way to get this to work with a two camera setup and deferred lighting? Love how it makes our game look, but I can't seem to get it to play nicely with our camera setup (required for our dynamic weather system).

MainCamera - depth 30, clear flags: don't clear or depth only, this is the camera I'd like to use SSAO on
CloudCamera - depth 1, clear flags: skybox, this camera breaks if I have SSAO on MainCamera.

 

5.0 actually, but I was mistaken - turns out I am using forward rendering. Enabling SSAO has the effect of making the scene look as though the cloud camera simply doesn't exist (so anything not covered by the main camera doesn't clear, which is why you see repeats of the terrain instead of the sky).

EDIT:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/grabpass-problems-when-using-multiple-cameras.167676/

Looks like it's a pretty known issue, tried all of the discussed work arounds in that thread and another but no luck so far. Certainly not an issue with your SSAO asset, I was just hoping you'd run into a solution before (the Unity SSAO causes the same problem).