Exclude foliage from dfao

anonymous_user_7e6d2ab6 · June 6, 2017, 7:48pm

Hello,

i applied dfao in my sklight since it is set to movable.
Everything works fine except on my plant foliage. My dfao is also just applied to my trees and that one specific plant. I dont know why it is not working for my grass.
I read somewhere that there is a workaround… that i need to set my distance field ambient occlusion of my mesh to 0. I did that but the dfao is still there. I wouldnt mind but it looks really weird.

dfao applied:
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dfao set to 0:
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dfao visualisized:
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I would love toknow how i exclude that foliage from my dfao or why it is not working right and why the dfao is not applied to my grass.

Thanks,

anonymous_user_7e6d2ab6 · June 7, 2017, 1:06pm

Someone has an idea ?

Chosker · June 7, 2017, 1:17pm

how did you “set dfao to 0 on the mesh” ?

also are your plants mesh actors, painted foliage, or landscape grass?

anonymous_user_7e6d2ab6 · June 7, 2017, 1:29pm

In mesh settings distance field resolution scale:
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I also changed that value on my other mesh properties to 0 or 1 but it does not change anything.

I just want to exclude that one specific foliage as it turns to black with dfao

anonymous_user_0581b5bb · June 7, 2017, 4:13pm

set back the DF res.scale to 1 its needed i guess otherwise it will look crappy and low.res,
if u painting instances on landscape using foliage then there is option to use dynamic shadows and cast shadow as 2sided mat set both to true it might work!, you will find it in foliage setting panel.

anonymous_user_0581b5bb · June 7, 2017, 4:15pm

and btw i still facing the same problems with DFAO/DFGI(the DFGI is removed from 4.16 may be! ) there is a thread i created do join it and spread the word about it. !

Shinjitsu84 · March 16, 2024, 6:04pm

Just in case anyone is still looking for a solution what worked for me was changing the Material shading model to Two Sided Foliage. It seems to have the expectation that distance field AO should not treat this like it would any other default lit opaque or masked thing. Have you tried that out?