What is SSAO and HBAO?
We now know what SSAO stands for, but what is HBAO? HBAO stands for ‘horizon based ambient occlusion’. It is a step up graphically from the simpler screen space ambient occlusion. It ups the ante from every aspect in SSAO, giving the game better and higher definition, and visibility.
What is HDAO in games?
High Definition Ambient Occlusion or HDAO is a new ambient occlusion technique we’ll see when AMD DirectX 11 graphics cards will be available.
Whats better SSAO or HBAO?
With the help of geometry, it’s much more effective at rendering shadows and lighting. The major disadvantage of HBAO is that, unlike SSAO, it requires more processing power in both the CPU and GPU. Later, HBAO+ was introduced to provide a less performance-tasking algorithm of light and shadow sampling.
Is ambient occlusion expensive?
Note that the Ambient Occlusion effect is quite expensive in terms of processing time and generally should only be used on desktop or console hardware. Its cost depends purely on screen resolution and the effects parameters and does not depend on scene complexity as true Ambient Occlusion would.
What does HDAO stand for?
Definition. HDAO. High-Definition Ambient Occlusion (game rendering)
What is LOD factor?
Essentially an extension of draw distance, LOD Factor is the distance at which objects render at a higher level of detail. Typically, the nearer you get to an object, the more detail it will be rendered it. Increasing the LOD Factor increases this distance.
What are the differences between SSAO HBAO and hdao in Far Cry 3?
What are the differences between SSAO, HBAO and HDAO in Far Cry 3? There are differences in how they work, how they look, and how they impact the framerate. I’m not going to detail how they work. SSAO SSAO creates shadows around the edges of objects, sometimes incorrectly (i.e. around edges of objects that aren’t close to each other). HBAO
How to turn off SSAO in Far Cry 3?
In my opinion AO looks pretty bad in Far Cry 3 no matter which option you use, with considerable performance hit. I turned it off completely by editing My Documents>My Games>Far Cry 3>GamerProfile and changing the SSAO entry to 0. (Any adjustment ingame to the settings will reset it, though – so best to make that file readonly afterwards.
What is hdao and SSAO?
Just so everyone knows what this is: SSAO stands for Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, HBAO = Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion, and finally HDAO is NOT the Highland Dancers Association of Ontario (that was my first Google result). HDAO is High Definition Ambient Occlusion. Essentially, different rendering modes. – Frank Dec 5 ’12 at 15:30
Is hdao better than Samo?
HDAO HDAO is more subtle than SSAO and HBAO. It’s probably the most accurate, because there’s much less incorrect darkening. Choosing HDAO over SSAO or HBAO results in a small framerate drop on AMD cards, and a significant one on Nvidia cards.