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AO ... wow what a difference. Great work

Jeepers, I'm sorry about the format, this is an import from blogspot. It goes crazy sometimes.

 

But it's all down to someone here mentioning SMAK, I had to check it out, bought the beta (since it's on offer) and had a play. We didn't use it for the above test but it was enough to get an idea of where we could make some improvements. And if you don't have MAX it's a bargin for what you get.

Baking AO to textures is still a good thing these days. Even if you could do it in realtime with a shader.

People with low-end systems will definitly love baked lighting.

Yeah, baked AO is the way to go with vertex engines. It takes too much FPS to do as good quality AO with shaders. The FPS can be used for much more important stuff which you can't bake, like raytracing, or at least light bounce and color bleed.

But Crysis has me hooked on real time =D

 

and so does leadwerks. I like my AO to interact with every single blade of grass

 

But in a flight simulator this makes perfect sense imo

Everybody else sums it up already: great work with the AO backing.

 

And the detail from the cockpit is magnificent! must have taken a lot of hours.