Marty McFly's Ambient Obscurance (MXAO) with IL

Thanks

The default settings are a good starting point, there's no "best practice" way of using it. I mostly set the radius to my desired result, then set the quality to as low as possible (don't look at debug, often AO looks bad in debug but just fine in normal game play) without having any flicker or ghosting, and then I adjust the intensity until I like it. In case I encounter any AO where it's not supposed to be (shadowing on low poly environment with a 175 degrees angle or so) I adjust the normal bias until it's gone. I wanted to create a video guide for a while now but i lack the motivation atm.

I have some question... is there a part in this shader that could separate or detect light sources and fog avoiding to put in top of theirs? or maybe could be degrade the depth of the MXAO, to avoiding the limits of this.. I hope to make understand to you, I dont know how (it´s very representative with foggy ambients), is like to detect the color of ambient and supress knowing that color is used a lot for light sources.

I've tried, but nothing separates a white light source from a white wall, color data wise
That's why usually, AO is drawn before all transparent objects.

But.. cannot take a ¨picture¨ about the color information ...like the lightroom shader and apply like a¨color¨ mask ?..could be possible?.. Well. I assume that color i seen in three dimensions is much.. well, any way..real thanks for your answer!!

Marty McFly wrote: Ok so I had a look at SMAA. Yes, it indeed grabs the unlinearized, unflipped, un-whatever raw depth buffer. Raw sauce, no ketchup. As far as I see, there are 2 options, each with their own (dis)advantages:
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www.mediafire.com/file/3tbsjt3jcazy13b/SMAAFixedDepth.7z

Hey Marty,
Sorry last post on this -- given this thread here: reshade.me/forum/shader-discussion/4298-...fix-this-thing#27967
And that your changes appear to be good, do you want to push to github to replace the current SMAA?

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Hi Marty! I have a problem and I'm hoping you could shed some light on it. I'm playing ETS2 and I'm trying to enable the MXAO but it does nothing. In the debugging options I set to only see the AO/IL but I just see a white screen (similar with culling faces, it's just black). I think I'm doing something really dumb because other ppl say that MXAO works fine with their Eurotruck Simulator 2 without saying that they did much...

I installed the latest ReShade (installed for the DX9 version of ETS2) and downloaded MXAO via the installation.

Thanks beforehand!

I'm very impressed by how cheap this shader is compared to many other AO's with around the same quality as MXAO. the indirect lightning feature is really nice. I've tried it in BeamNG Drive and it's beautiful. There is some obvious flickering in some scenarios which is understandable as IL is just a feature on top of screen space ambient occlusion. This is by far the most interesting post processing shader I've ever seen.

Darius_bd wrote: .
Hi Marty! I have a problem and I'm hoping you could shed some light on it. I'm playing ETS2 and I'm trying to enable the MXAO but it does nothing. In the debugging options I set to only see the AO/IL but I just see a white screen (similar with culling faces, it's just black). I think I'm doing something really dumb because other ppl say that MXAO works fine with their Eurotruck Simulator 2 without saying that they did much...

I installed the latest ReShade (installed for the DX9 version of ETS2) and downloaded MXAO via the installation.

Thanks beforehand!

Ha, I found the problem. One has to set the scaling in the graphical settings of the game to 100%. And at least on my case, it still works with MLAA turned on. I leave it for reference for other people.

Hey Marty, I just wanted to check how progress is going on your new raytraced SSAO. It looks extremely promising and as much as I love the current MXAO, I have a feeling this would just blow me away.

That progress is currently halted as I have very little free time at the moment. I wanted it to be released already but I was struggling to find a good denoise algorithm, since the spatial filter I use for regular MXAO isn't fit for this.
MXAO samples in a specific pattern and the denoiser is tuned for that, but raytracing must sample purely random which needs a different denoising. The required blur is very wide and I don't want it to kill off all detail, haven't come up with a good solution yet. It's very gimmick'y anyways. While working on that, I found a good improvement for the regular MXAO blur which is now much more calm and flicker free.

hey! Just got Crash Bandicoot n sane trilogy and it works nicely with mxao but I noticed something: With mxao I can see the depth of the image, but when I use the display Depth shader in reshade, it doesn't see the depth. Why is that so? Really wanted to use some nice distant blur in crash bandicoot, but only mxao works

Want to use MXAO in GTA V with Reshade 3 but get some stripes on the ground and walls. I set reversed and logaritmic in Reshade settings. Does anyone have some working reshade settings for MXAO in GTA V? Is DX11 the problem?
Screenshot: ibb.co/i31Erd

Shady wrote: Want to use MXAO in GTA V with Reshade 3 but get some stripes on the ground and walls. I set reversed and logaritmic in Reshade settings. Does anyone have some working reshade settings for MXAO in GTA V? Is DX11 the problem?
Screenshot: ibb.co/i31Erd

Have you tried disabling logarithmic? In pretty much every game with a supposed logarithmic shader I get really ugly stripes so I go without and it looks great.

That's it, no logarithmic, looking good now

Hi Marty, I don't know if you can shed any light on this issue.

A bunch of people who use ReShade in The Sims 4 are reporting that MXAO decreases in strength, almost to the point of disappearing, when they enter the freecam mode (and returns to normal when they exit it). I can't replicate this problem, and I don't know enough about how it all works to understand what might be causing it. It almost looks like a scaling problem, like when effects don't scale with resolution and so become smaller and tighter iyswim, but it's only affecting some people, and there's no resolution change between gameplay mode and freecam mode.

Is this something you've come across before in any other game? What might I suggest to help them troubleshoot the problem?

Thanks

Edit: a thread about the problem is here . If you scroll down to the notes you'll see other people adding their own information about the issue.

I've never played Sims 4 but in Cities: Skylines changing to freecam, i. e. a mode without UI, seems to change depth buffer settings as well. With ReShade 3.4 you might try to change the depth detection setting under the new DX11 tab, that helped me in C:S.

Thank you, I'll pass that along to those with the problem. I think a lot of them are generally still using 3.0.8, so I'll recommend updating.

Two people I'm troubleshooting with said there was a difference in behaviour between fullscreen and fullscreen windowed, but they had opposite experiences: one said freecam worked fine in windowed, the other said it worked fine in fullscreen... I have no idea what's going on there. I play in windowed and have never had a problem.

Hi, I have tested MXAO with cemu and it works great with Breath of the Wild and Super Mario 3d world, it worked with GTA V too.

But on some games it doesn't work, like on Mafia II or in PCSX2 emulator (i tried Spy vs Spy game, I think it will look amazing with MXAO). Why? It just doesn't works, and on the debug options, one option gives me a white screen and another option gives me a black screen. I have readed and I think is because the depth buffer or something like that. Is there any fix for play on these games? (and more that I want try, like Bully: Scholarship Edition)

And thanks so much to Marty for make this awesome effect (I don't know how to call it), I have a video of Breath of the Wild with MXAO and some others effects like Bloom or ambient lighting.

To enable MXAO in GTA V 64bit DX11 I need to open ReShade settings and select the 5th depth buffer setting in DX11 tab manually on each game startup. How can I save that setting?

Why recent version of MXAO getting dumbed down and features removed? In previous version there was many options related to smoothing of effect, there was options related to GI, there was also normal smoothing - now everything is gone and image quality of MXAO got worse, now there is no way now to set up smoothing and effect looks ugly because you can clearly see all the polygons it shades.

Please, stop dumbing down this shader, return what was removed back to official repository.