SSAO

GLMakie also implements screen-space ambient occlusion, which is an algorithm to more accurately simulate the scattering of light. There are a couple of controllable scene attributes nested within the SSAO toplevel attribute:

radius sets the range of SSAO. You may want to scale this up or down depending on the limits of your coordinate system
bias sets the minimum difference in depth required for a pixel to be occluded. Increasing this will typically make the occlusion effect stronger.
blur sets the (pixel) range of the blur applied to the occlusion texture. The texture contains a (random) pattern, which is washed out by blurring. Small blur will be faster, sharper and more patterned. Large blur will be slower and smoother. Typically blur = 2 is a good compromise.

Note

The SSAO postprocessor is turned off by default to save on resources. To turn it on, set GLMakie.activate!(ssao=true), close any existing GLMakie window and reopen it.

Example

julia

using GLMakie
GLMakie.activate!(ssao=true)
GLMakie.closeall() # close any open screen

fig = Figure()
ssao = Makie.SSAO(radius = 5.0, blur = 3)
ax = LScene(fig[1, 1], scenekw = (ssao=ssao,))
# SSAO attributes are per scene
ax.scene.ssao.bias[] = 0.025

box = Rect3(Point3f(-0.5), Vec3f(1))
positions = [Point3f(x, y, rand()) for x in -5:5 for y in -5:5]
meshscatter!(ax, positions, marker=box, markersize=1, color=:lightblue, ssao=true)
fig

# julia:disable-ssao # not working here
GLMakie.activate!(ssao=false) # hide
GLMakie.closeall() # hide

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