HDR and SSAO?

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by d.burnette

Hey gang,

I was having a look see in the manual for CLoD, couple things I was wondering about.

1: In the video section, the manual talks about HDR - High Dynamic Range, and recommends this setting be on for all but the lower level computers. I do not see this in the video options in the sim.

2: SSAO - I see this in the video options in the sim - I may have couple of the letters backwards as I am going by memory - I do not see this mentioned in the CLoD manual in the video section - what is this?

Thanks for any help on these,

Just quickly here: SSAO improves a games shading /lighting as it attempts to simulate the affect of light bouncing off surfaces and what not and calculate where the shadows should be (in crevices or indentations etc) therefore adding realism. It would in this case only apply to the cockpit in the game though.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Just quickly here: SSAO improves a games shading /lighting as it attempts to simulate the affect of light bouncing off surfaces and what not and calculate where the shadows should be (in crevices or indentations etc) therefore adding realism. It would in this case only apply to the cockpit in the game though.

IIRC it applied to the planes also. I remember the belly of a spit with the wheel wells and radiators more defined/contrasted.