Why does the fancy 'directional occlusion' look like crap?

[h]

Literally the occlusion looks like copy pasting a piece of the image randomly. It's distracting me, and I'm wondering if everyone else is having the same problem with directional occlusion.

http://imgur.com/jf8HJ0S

[Zaxx]

Dat's weird. Seems like some kind of artifact, maybe an engine bug?

[h]

Originally posted by Zaxx:

Dat's weird. Seems like some kind of artifact, maybe an engine bug?

Can you possibly show me what the Directional Occlusion looks like on your screen?

[Henry]

Mine looks the same. I wondered what they did, was looking for ambient occlusion like in other games but it seems to be a bunch of superimposed hard shadows. Possibly "directional" means it is not just a screen space effect.

[fenderjaguar]

I just think it's yet another of id's apparently simple and overoptimised features (while our GPU's chug a little?). To be honest, it almost reminds me of the very basic shader effects that were in the PC version of halo combat evolved

[psykhiqzero]

I dunno. I'll have to compare when i get home. The artifacts look like a dithering problem. What lvl did you take that pick?

[fenderjaguar]

Originally posted by psykhiqzero:

I dunno. I'll have to compare when i get home. The artifacts look like a dithering problem. What lvl did you take that pick?

I honestly don't think there's any kind of artifacts on that shot. It is what it's intended to be.

btw, I don't really think it looks terrible or anything. Infact, it does hold a little bit of charm, even, for me

[Toldi Miklós]

Maybe my videocard handling bad the directional oclusion (Geeforce GTX 760) or it's implemented bad in DOOM. When i turn on it's look like a crap ...
DO ON: http://imgur.com/gNMarnt
DO OFF: http://imgur.com/UdHIJ6N

[h]

Originally posted by smokey2k:

Maybe my videocard handling bad the directional oclusion (Geeforce GTX 760) or it's implemented bad in DOOM. When i turn on it's look like a crap ...
DO ON: http://imgur.com/gNMarnt
DO OFF: http://imgur.com/UdHIJ6N

that is depressing :(

[TheDyingSun]

Originally posted by smokey2k:

Maybe my videocard handling bad the directional oclusion (Geeforce GTX 760) or it's implemented bad in DOOM. When i turn on it's look like a crap ...
DO ON: http://imgur.com/gNMarnt
DO OFF: http://imgur.com/UdHIJ6N

Ughh, this is killing me. I can't find much info on this. I'm not sure how many people are experiencing it, or even if id has commented on the issue. It would be nice to know if a fix is in the works.

[Plaxus]

Im no expert, but it looks like the shader uniforms arn't resetting. What version of OGL are you on?

[Michael]

Haven't seen that with Vulkan.

[TheDyingSun]

I'm on Vulkan and it's happening just like that.

[Plaxus]

I think its because shaders are not transitioning well because most shaders are designed for OGL, with exceptions for directX. It may not be passing in the proper uniforms because occlusion ussualy requires several different shader passes with the info and its probably being lossy going back and forth between OGL and vulkan so much.

[HardCulmulo]

hi, I have exactly the same "problem" with occlusion, an issue was found ?

[Skankhunt42]

When you have several sources of light behind yourself, it should look somehow like that.