Weaker Ambient Occlusion-INI Tweaks
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- 👍 9.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #27 of 35 Visuals and Graphics mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
An ini tweak. Basically a weaker and less detailed version of the vanilla HBAO+.
As we all know, Fallout 4 has 2 ambient occlusion. For me, both of them are not good enough: SSAO is too inaccurate. HBAO+ is too strong and may cause weired shadows on the face of my character.
This mod is a simple INI tweak that makes HBAO+ less detailed and weaker, which will not cause weired shadows on faces anymore and effects on the environment is retained. Open your Fallout4Prefs.ini and replace the part with:
bBackgroundAOEnable=1
bBlurEnable=1
bBlurSharpnessProfileEnable=1
bDepthThresholdEnable=0
fDetailAO=0. 4500
fPowerExponent=1. 3500
fBackgroundAOViewDepth=750. 0000
fDepthThresholdSharpness=100. 0000
fDepthThresholdMaxViewDepth=500. 0000
iDepthClampModeEnum=0
fCoarseAO=1. 0000
fBlurSharpnessProfileBackgroundViewDepth=1. 0000
fBlurSharpnessProfileForegroundViewDepth=0. 0000
fBlurSharpnessProfileForegroundSharpnessScale=4. 0000
fBlurSharpness=16. 0000
iBlurRadiusEnum=1
fBias=0. 1000
fRadius=0. 6500
I only adjusted fDetailAO and fPowerExponent. Lower fDetailAO will make HBAO+ less accurate, and lower fPowerExponent will make the effect weaker.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 4 Mods
- Author
- Adingsiling
- Version
- 0.01
- Downloads
- 1,097
- Endorsements
- 99
- Category
- Visuals and Graphics
- Created
- 5/15/2020
- Updated
- 5/15/2020
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