jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – this city needs more gloom

We use ambient occlusion (SSAO) in scenes with no directional sunlight; for example, to simulate a gloomy indoor scene, a narrow street, or a gray, overcast day.

You activate ambient occlusion as follows:

1. Make a copy of Main.java and name the class ShadowSSAO.java. Remember to also refactor the first line of the main() method to ShadowSSAO app = new ShadowSSAO().
2. Add FilterPostProcessor as a class field, and initialize it in the simpleInitApp() method. Add FilterPostProcessor to viewPort of your SimpleApplication:

   private FilterPostProcessor fpp;
   public void simpleInitApp() {
     FilterPostProcessor fpp = new FilterPostProcessor(assetManager);
     viewPort.addProcessor(fpp);

3. Create an SSAOFilter object (from com.jme3.post.ssao ...