I fail to see the great improvement over existing stuff. I mean, if that HL2 pic was an UnrealEd screenshot, I'd get it messed up with a before/after comparison of a lighting rebuild.
NVIDIA Forced Ambient Occlusion?
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yeah it adds two lines around your atari character with the words upgrade your sh*t... written on their forehead!!
Tony Chartrand said:
Between that and the need for Vista/Win7.. eh I'll pass. I'll let 'em beta test it on you guys for another 6 months or so first.
Vista I'll get on my next system this holiday season, by then they should have some more of the bad bugs worked out. but as for nvidia and their "awesome new driver features! It makes poptarts we swear!", well we all know how those turn out.
It's a cool idea, but you can just bake ambient occlusion into any texture right from the 3D program. I mean yes it would be slightly more accurate, but I think the power needed to do it isn't worth the trade off.
Having said that though, I'm sure it will get to a point where it doesn't hit your cpu that hard and it will be worth implementing. I think that's a few years off though.
Having said that though, I'm sure it will get to a point where it doesn't hit your cpu that hard and it will be worth implementing. I think that's a few years off though.
My Nvidia control panel just tells me: "Not supported for this application"
So, it works on 8 series cards, but not 9?
Scratch:^
installed the drivers again and now the option is there. Hooray.
However, there's no visible difference in-game as far as I can tell...
So, it works on 8 series cards, but not 9?
Scratch:^
installed the drivers again and now the option is there. Hooray.
However, there's no visible difference in-game as far as I can tell...
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Either I'm seeing things or there's some abient occlusion going on in the main menu's backround.
Indeed. Soon...
AO on:
[screenshot]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c155/ShadowDancer88/AOon.jpg[/screenshot]
AO off:
[screenshot]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c155/ShadowDancer88/noAO.jpg[/screenshot]
AO on:
[screenshot]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c155/ShadowDancer88/AOon.jpg[/screenshot]
AO off:
[screenshot]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c155/ShadowDancer88/noAO.jpg[/screenshot]
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I also can't see any additional shadows with AO on.
Also, does this work on Vista/7 only? I have XP and there's no such option in drivers. :/
Also, does this work on Vista/7 only? I have XP and there's no such option in drivers. :/
This is a Windows7/Vista feature only. I've also heard there may be a bug in some of the latest 19x.xx Nvidia drivers with Win7 64-bit and UT3 where it just won't work. Just thought I'd update the thread as I was reading about it today.
It kinda makes it look like UT1's baked lighting, I'm assuming that this is real-time though (and also applies to none-static objects like player characters and npc's). It's subtle and can look nice but I don't like the way it darkens some of the corners in the HL2 pictures, something about it isn't natural in a more lowpoly environment.