ARR: Ambient Occlusion?

I've noticed in alpha videos and screenshots there doesn't seem to be ambient occlusion. But as far as I recall 1.0's alpha did have it from the get go.

I was wondering if we can expect it to be implemented for release, or if it not featured in the client.

Alpha build was forked from the main branch a few months ago, so the lighting we see is not done yet, nor is the water and character animations. I think such questions are better asked in beta when there is only the main, up-to-date branch.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Alpha build was forked from the main branch a few months ago, so the lighting we see is not done yet, nor is the water and character animations. I think such questions are better asked in beta when there is only the main, up-to-date branch.

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Well, but even if not implemented, I'm sure SE could answer whether there are plans or not to feature it.
If I recall, and I could be wrong, WoW does not feature AC?

WoW is such a graphical mess, I don't think you'd ever be able to tell if there was Ambient Occlusion in it.

(I'm assuming that 'AC' was supposed to mean Ambient Occlusion)

In the last live letter when he showed the config screen you can see that there is an option for Ambient Occlusion. It's in Japanese of course, but Depth of Field is also there.

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Originally Posted by Zezlar

In the last live letter when he showed the config screen you can see that there is an option for Ambient Occlusion. It's in Japanese of course, but Depth of Field is also there.

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oh cool cool!

Hopefully it wont destroy your framerate like it does in 1.0

Memory leaks and AO being Offloaded to the CPU is what destroyed frames with the 1.0's AO.

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Originally Posted by Valmonte

Memory leaks and AO being Offloaded to the CPU is what destroyed frames with the 1.0's AO.

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Actually, it was the lookup radius being too large, more than everything else.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Actually, it was the lookup radius being too large, more than everything else.

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lookup radius?

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Originally Posted by Majidah

lookup radius?

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When calculating the amount of shadowing for a certain point of an object, you look for how "occluded" this point is. You check all directions either in a sphere or only the half of it with a certain radius. The larger the radius, the more accurate the result and the more processing power it uses.

In many of First Look videos they have sent out have AO is turned on. You can see it near the feet of the characters. From what I can tell it is a very inaccurate you can see while running the AO renders with a slight offset from the legs and it just looks award. In other videos it is very slight but you can see it in the environment.

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Originally Posted by Kerath

In many of First Look videos they have sent out have AO is turned on. You can see it near the feet of the characters. From what I can tell it is a very inaccurate you can see while running the AO renders with a slight offset from the legs and it just looks award. In other videos it is very slight but you can see it in the environment.

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I noticed this as well. Esp in that indoor scene where 2 chars where sitting at a table.

I'm sure the effect will be far better in the final version, so feedback at this point is premature.