Screenspace ambient occlusion: Possible to be made a mutator for UT3 (PC)?

[ThreeDee]

I'm just a 3d artist, not a programmer, so pardon me if this question sounds silly.

Anyway, recently Epic showed Gears of War 2 having SSAO, like some other newer engines (CryEngine 2, Offset Engine, etc.).

So, is this something a knowledgeable modder/programmer could do, or would this be something source-code related that external modders would not have access to?

Thanks for your time, and pardon my ignorance, I'm just hear to learn, and be of assistance where I can be.

 

[Davros]

you would need the sourcecode to the renderer and its not been released by epic and probably wont ever, not for gears of war, maybe ut3 has a slim chance
the source for the renderer for the orignal ut has, someones allready added hdr to it no reason why ssao cant be added
http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/

 

[Tchock]

I don't think so- unless the engine itself is upgraded, I don't think modders can code in a SSAO shader that should have lower-level stuff than frontend + assets.

Of course, you can use ENBSeries to hack SSAO in.
http://boris-vorontsov.narod.ru/index_en.html

 

[Nick]

It can be done by writing a wrapper Direct3D DLL.

 

[Davros]

Rayne might be the guy to see over this, he added AA, dynamic shadows & reflections, enhanced blood pools reflections, enhanced transparent water, enhanced blood fields, enhanced aura vision to bloodrayne2
it was several months work though, so dont expect him to do it for you

 

[ThreeDee]

If someone could do that, that would be great, but I don't know how much work that takes.