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Screen space ambient obscurance image effect has artifacts with OpenGL 4.1

Discussion in 'Image Effects' started by veracious, Dec 21, 2015.

  1. veracious

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    This post processing effect is giving artifacts with OpenGL 4.1. I'm guessing the blur part of the shader is not working for some reason.

    With OpenGL 2.1 this does not manifest.

    I filed a bug report on this with #756028.

    screen space ambient obscurance - opengl 2.1.png screen space ambient obscurance - opengl 4.1.png
     
    veracious, Dec 21, 2015
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  2. veracious

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    Any news on this? I'm still having the same issue with the latest Unity 5.3.2f1.
     
    veracious, Jan 29, 2016
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  3. Tim-C

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    Hi, looking at the internal bug status it says this:

    Code (csharp):
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    2. Fixed in latest 5.4 trunk (after gl/ubo merged), please verify. Might have also been fixed in latest 5.3 patch release.
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    so it looks like a fix is on the way through the tubes.
     
    Tim-C, Jan 29, 2016
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  4. Reanimate_L

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    Sorry to hijack the thread but speaking about AO artifact is someone really not notice there's a horizontal cutoff in the ao effect, what is that actually that artifact is been a while. But it seems nobody notice it.
     
    Reanimate_L, Feb 3, 2016
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  5. Tim-C

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    We are going to start working on a new one that matches 'the new best' very soon :)
     
    Tim-C, Feb 3, 2016
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  6. Reanimate_L

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    Awesome news, can i request for the new AO to have a selector like tonemapping to use different technique that we want, like ssdo,ssao,hbao and sphere/capsule ao/shadow :p
     
    Reanimate_L, Feb 4, 2016
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  7. GoGoGadget

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    For those that need a working screen-space ambient obscurance effect, I've recently added one to my all-in-one PostFX pack, PRISM (link in bio). The default Unity one has a lot of dirty hard coded numbers in it, it honestly looks like it was set up to work in one specific scene and just shipped.
    PRISM.AO:

    Unity AO:
     
    GoGoGadget, Feb 19, 2016
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