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SSAO

This tab contains settings related to screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO).

Ambient Occlusion Settings

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The settings of the screen-space ambient occlusion can be adjusted if the Occlusion is enabled on the System menu -> Render panel.

Quality	Quality (number of the used samples) of the screen-space ambient occlusion: Low — 4 samples Medium — 8 samples High — 16 samples Ultra — 32 samples
Resolution	Resolution used for the screen-space ambient occlusion: Half — half resolution Full — full resolution
Radius	Distance for each of the points in the world space, up to which they can shadow their neighboring points: By low values, each point can shadow only the points in the close range. By high values, each point shadows farther positioned points.
Intensity	Brightness of shadows: By the minimum value of 0, the ambient occlusion shadowing is the lightest. By the maximum value of 1, the ambient occlusion shadowing is the darkest.
Intensity lighted side	Intensity of the lighted side.
Noise	Enables screen-space ambient occlusion noise Notice We recommend to use it with TAA enabled.

Last update: 2017-07-03

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