VAO++ Practical Volumetric Ambient Occlusion for Games Short
Accompanying video for our 'VAO++: Practical Volumetric Ambient Occlusion for Games' paper. Ambient occlusion is one of the commonly used methods to increase visual fidelity in real-time rendering applications. We propose several extensions of the recently introduced volumetric ambient occlusion method. These extensions improve the properties of the methods with a particular focus on the quality vs performance tradeoff and wide applicability in contemporary games. We describe the implementation of the proposed algorithm and its extensions. We implemented the method as a camera effect within the Unity game engine. The results show that our implementation compares favourably with the standard ambient occlusion in Unity both in terms of quality and speed. Same range setting and 16 samples were used for all algorithms. Unity Plugin at https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/67927 Contact us at projectwilberforce@gmail.com Also visit: https://projectwilberforce.github.io/
Accompanying video for our 'VAO++: Practical Volumetric Ambient Occlusion for Games' paper. Ambient occlusion is one of the commonly used methods to increase visual fidelity in real-time rendering applications. We propose several extensions of the recently introduced volumetric ambient occlusion method. These extensions improve the properties of the methods with a particular focus on the quality vs performance tradeoff and wide applicability in contemporary games. We describe the implementation of the proposed algorithm and its extensions. We implemented the method as a camera effect within the Unity game engine. The results show that our implementation compares favourably with the standard ambient occlusion in Unity both in terms of quality and speed. Same range setting and 16 samples were used for all algorithms. Unity Plugin at https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/67927 Contact us at projectwilberforce@gmail.com Also visit: https://projectwilberforce.github.io/